Peter van Bohlen

Peter von Bohlen (9 March 1796 – 6 February 1840) was a German Orientalist and Indologist.

His talents and perseverance attracted attention, and he obtained admission to the Hamburg gymnasium.

He then obtained an appointment at Königsberg, first in 1825 as extraordinary, and afterward in 1830 as ordinary professor of oriental literature.

Bohlen has left many works which fully support his title to the high place which he held among Oriental scholars.

The details of Bohlen's life are given with great minuteness and honesty in his Autobiography (Königsberg, 1841), which is full of interest, and cannot be read without producing a full conviction that he was no less distinguished by his amiability in private life than by his literary acquirements.