Karl Friedrich Neumam, a German orientalist, born of Jewish parents at Reichmannsdorf, near Bamberg, Dec. 22, 1798, died in Berlin, March 117, 1870. He studied at Heidelberg, Munich, and Gottingen, and in 1822 was appointed pro-Lessor of history at Spire, but was compelled on account of his liberal views to retire. He next devoted several years to oriental languages, particularly the Chinese and Armenian, and in 1829-30 visited China to make a collection of works by native authors. He returned to Europe with 10,000 volumes, besides about 2,500 for the royal library of Berlin. In 1831 he became professor at Munich, lecturing on the Armenian and Chinese languages, and on geography, ethnography, and history. He joined the liberals during the commotions of 1847-'8, and in 1852 was removed from his professorship. In 1863 he took up his residence in Berlin. He wrote in German, French, and English, into which languages he made many translations from the Armenian and Chinese, and edited Gtitzlaff's Geschichte des chinesischen Reichs. Among his works are: Memoirs sur la vie et les outrages de David, philosoplie ar-menien (Paris, 1829); "History of Vartan by Elisseus," and Vahram's "Chronicle of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia," from the Armenian (London, 1830); "Catechism of the Shamans," from the Chinese (1831); "History of the Chinese Pirates" (1831); Pilgerfahrten buddhistischer Priester aus China nach Indien (Leipsic, 1833); Lehrsaal des Mittelreichs (1836); Asiatische Studien (1837); Geschichte des englisch-chinesischen Kriegs (1846); Die Völker des südlichen Russland (1847); Bei-trage zur armenischen Literatur (1849); Geschichte des englischen Reichs in Asien (2 vols., 1857); and Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von AmeriTca (3 vols., 1863-'6). A translation of his " Hoei-Schein, or the Discovery of America by Buddhist Monks in the Fifth Century," was published in London in 1874.