Philipp Jakob Fallmerayer, a German historian and traveller, born at Tschotsch, near Brixen, in the Tyrol, Dec. 10, 1791, died in Munich, April 26, 18G2. He served as a sublieutenant in the campaigns of 1813-'15, and subsequently became a professor in the college of Augsburg and in the lyceum at Landshut. He travelled in the East from 1831 to 1836, spent several years in southern France, Italy, and Geneva, made a second tour through Asia Minor in 1840, published the results of his ethnological and historical researches in Frag-mente aus dem Orient (2 vols., Stuttgart, 1845), visited Palestine and Syria in 1847, was a member of the German parliament in 1848, and became a professor in the university of Munich, but was dismissed in 1849 on account of his liberal views. The most important of his historical writings are Geschichte des Kai-serthums Trapezunt (Munich, 1831), and Ge-schichte der Halbinsel Morea im Mittelalter (2 vols., Stuttgart, 1830-'36). In the latter work he maintains that the present inhabitants of Greece have little or no affinity of race with the ancient Hellenes, and may be con-sidered, notwithstanding their language, a ! branch of the Slavic family. Many of his es-says published in the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung belong to the best writings of their kind.

His Gesammelte Werke, published after his death by Thomas, contains the Neue Fragments aus dem Orient, and a large number of political, historical, and critical essays. His works exhibit a rare combination of profound scholarship and philosophical depth with the faculty of presenting the results of scientific researches in a perspicuous and graceful form.