Jülg, BERNHARD, philologist, was born at Ringelbach, in Baden, 20th August 1825; studied classical and comparative philology at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin; and after teaching in gymnasia at Heidelberg, Freiburg, and Rastatt became in 1851 extra-ordinary professor of Classical Philology at Lemberg; in 1853 ordinary professor at the university of Cracow, and in 1863 at Innsbruck, where he died 14th August 1886. Besides his studies in comparative philology, extended to embrace the tongues of eastern Asia, he devoted much attention to the question of comparative folk-tales.
Of his scientific publications the most important are
Vater's Litteratur der Grammatiken, Lexika und Wörtersammlungen aller Sprachen der Erde (2d ed. 1847), Die Märchen des Siddhi-kür (1866), two collections of Mongolian Märchen (1867 and 1868), a work on echoes of the Greek heroic epos amongst the Mongolians (1869), and Ueber Wesen und Aufgabe der Sprachwissenschaft (1868).