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    Albert, Francis Charles, Prince Consort (male) 08/26/1819 - 12/14/1861 German University of Bonn

    Consort of Queen Victoria; managed royal household, supported Great Exhibition of 1851. See Boase I: 38-9, ODNB.

    Bernays, Adolphus (male) 05/18/1795 - 12/22/1864 German

    Professor of German at King's College, London; wrote German Poetry for Beginners (1836) and other works. See Boase I: 257

    Biber, George Edward (male) 09/04/1801 - 01/19/1874 German

    Writer and cleric; born in Germany but naturalized by vote of parliament; vicar of Holy Trinity, Roehampton; wrote for the English Review, the Churchman's Magazine, the Literary Churchman; edited John Bull. See Boase I: 269, ODNB.

    Blind, Mathilde (Cohen) (female) 03/21/1841 - 11/26/1896 German

    Poet, essayist and critic; a leading "New Woman" writer; wrote in Westminster Review, Dark Blue, other periodicals; wrote a biography of George Eliot; wrote the poem "The Ascent of Man" (1889).

    Deutsch, Emmanuel Oscar Menahem (male) 10/28/1829 - 05/12/1873 German

    Semitic scholar; assistant librarian at British Museum; wrote articles for Chalmer's Cyclopedia and other books. See Boase I: 867.

    Edersheim, Alfred (male) 1825 - 03/16/1889 German Univ. Hesse Casssel

    Biblical scholar and ordained priest; select preacher at Oxford 1884-5; wrote History of the Jewish Nation After the Destruction of Jerusalem (1856), Jewish Social Life In the Days of Christ (1876) and other works. See Boase I: 953.

    Egestorff, George Henry [Christian] (male) 05/23/1783 German

    Translator, musician, teacher. Alive in May 1866. See Cyrus Redding, Personal Reminiscences of Eminent Men.

    Freiligarth, Ferdinand (male) 06/17/1810 - 03/17/1876 German

    Bank clerk and poet; naturalized in England in 1858; collected poems published in six volumes in 1877. See Boase I: 1105.

    Garnier, Joseph Heinrich (male) 1800 - 1855 German

    Refugee living in London; Wellesley lists as "Garnier, J.H." without life dates; 1800 is estimated birth year. O’Grady, VPR 24 (1991), 150.

    Gumpach, Johannes von (male) 1819 - 1875 German

    Living in 1865; deceased by 1876; naturalized in 1857. EMC, VPR 34 (2001), 354-355.

    Haas, James D. (male) German

    Teacher in Glasgow; translated works by Pichler, Zschokke, Kohlrausch, others; active 1820s – 1850s. See BL: James D. Haas.

    Julius, Nikolaus Heinrich (male) 10/03/1773 - 08/20/1862 German University of Heidelberg

    Physician and prison reformer; reformed the prison system in Prussia and worked as a writer. See http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9086-julius-nikolaus-heinrich.

    Michelson, Dr. Edward (male) 1795 - 06/24/1870 German

    Originally named Michalowitz; see RLF # 888; born in Dresden; lived in USA and England; wrote The Ottoman Empire and its Resources (1853), England Since the Accession of Queen Victoria (1854) and other works of history. See Boase VI: 203-4.

    Muhlenfels, Ludwig von (male) 09/05/1793 - 06/14/1861 German University of Greifswald; University of Heidelberg

    Jurist and literary historian; professor of German and Nordic language at the University of London 1828-9.

    Müller, Friedrich Max (male) 12/06/1823 - 1900 German University of Leipzig

    Orientalist and philologist; settled in England in 1848; Sanskrit scholar; professor of modern languages at Oxford. See ODNB.

    Petermann, Frederick Heinrich Augustus (male) 04/18/1822 - 09/25/1878 German

    Geographer.

    Ravenstein, Ernst Georg (male) 12/30/1834 - 03/13/1913 German

    Writer; born in Frankfurt, emigrated to London in 1852; cartographer; wrote a work on Russian exploration; published on gymnastics. See ODNB.

    Rosen, Friedrich August (male) 09/02/1805 - 09/12/1837 German University of Leipzig

    Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar; taught at University College of London; remarkable linguist; worked on a Latin translation of the Rigveda. See ODNB.

    Scharf, George Johann (male) 1788 - 11/11/1860 German

    Painter; painted diagrams of scientific and antiquarian subjects; exhibited at Royal Academy; original member of New water-colour Society. See Boase III: 434.

    Schmidt, Heinrich Julian (male) 03/07/1818 - 03/27/1886 German University of Königsberg

    Journalist and literary scholar; editor-in-chief of the Berliner allgemeine Zeitung.

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