Mohl, JULES, orientalist, was born at Stuttgart, 25th October 1800, and educated for the Lutheran Church at Tübingen. But at an early age he was irresistibly attracted to oriental studies, and in 1823 he betook himself to the famous Silvestre de Sacy and Rémusat at Paris. He was nominally professor at Tübingen from 1826 to 1833, but he lived all his life in Paris, becoming a member of the Institute in 1844, and professor of Persian at the Collège de France in 1847. He was long secretary to the Société Asiatique, and his admirably learned and luminous annual reports on the progress of oriental learning were collected by Madame Mohl, under the title Vingt-sept Ans d'Histoire des Études Orientales (2 vols. 1879-80). His great edition of the Shâh Nâmeh was published in six folio volumes, from 1838 till 1868; a posthumous seventh volume, edited by Meynard, completed the gigantic undertaking in 1878 (Fr. trans., 7 vols., in same year). Mohl died 3d January 1876. He was a scholar of altogether unusual breadth of mind, and exercised a wide influence on his contemporaries, to which his charming and accomplished wife, née Mary Clarke, contributed in no small degree. Her salon was one of the few centres at Paris of high thinking, refinement, and brilliant talk in the degradation of the Second Empire.
See Kathleen O'Meara's Madame Mohl: her Salon and Friends (1885); Mrs Simpson's Letters and Recollections of Julius and Mary Mohl (1887); and Max-Müller's Biographical Essays (1883).