[2] In 1838 he removed to Bonn, and, after graduating at Königsberg in 1840, proceeded to Paris; in 1842 he edited a German translation of the Prabodhacandrodaya by Kṛṣṇamiśra Yati (fl.
From 1847 to 1850 he resided at Berlin, where his talents and scholarship were recognized by Alexander von Humboldt, but where his political views caused the authorities to regard him with suspicion.
[citation needed] In 1852 he was appointed professor of Sanskrit in University College London.
He worked on a new edition of Wilson's Sanskrit dictionary, of which the first instalment appeared in 1856.
[2] But his work became infeasibly long and detailed, and publication of the dictionary ground to a halt.