Fallmerayer

Fallmerayer, JACOB PHILIPP, a German traveller and historian, was born 10th December 1790, at Tschötsch, near Brixen, in the Tyrol. At the university of Landshut he studied law, history, and philology, and in 1826 was appointed to its chair of History and Philology. In 1831-34 he accompanied the Russian general, Count Ostermann-Tolstoi, in a journey through Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Cyprus, Rhodes, Greece, Turkey, and Italy, and twice afterwards (in 1840 and 1847) he revisited the East. The events of 1848 recalled him to Bavaria, and for a short time he sat as a deputy in the Frankfort parliament. Fallmerayer spoke a great number of European and oriental tongues. He died at Munich on 26th April 1861. His principal works are Geschichte des Kaisertums Trapezunt (1827), Geschichte der Halbinsel Morea im Mittelalter (2 vols. 1830-36), and Fragmente aus dem Orient (2 vols. 1845). His views on the Slavonic origin of the modern Greeks excited the liveliest controversy at the time of their publication (1835). His complete works, with a Life, were edited by Thomas (3 vols. Leip. 1861).