Ludwig August von Frankl

Ludwig August Frankl Ritter von Hochwart (3 February 1810 – 12 March 1894) was a Jewish Bohemian-Austrian writer and poet.

Biography Frankl was born on 3 February 1810, in Chrast, Bohemia. His brothers were David Bernhard Frankl (1820-1859), merchant and founder of the Commercial Academy in Prague, and Wilhelm Frankl (1821-1893), imperial and municipal councilor who established the Vienna trade schools and the Vienna Central Cemetery.

In 1828, aged eighteen, Frankl began to study medicine at Vienna. In 1837, he graduated as a doctor of medicine from the University of Padua, but he soon gave up his medical career. In September 1838, he was employed as secretary of the Jewish Community in Vienna, and in March 1840 he was appointed as editor of the Oesterreichisches Morgenblatt, a daily newspaper. The same year, he published a collection of poems, and in 1842 the biblical-romantic poem "Rachel". He next founded the weekly magazine Sonntagsblätter ("Sunday Leaves"), which made a decisive contribution to the development of intellectual life in Austria.

On 10 November 1876, Frankl was raised to the hereditary Austrian nobility with the title "Ritter von Hochwart", in recognition of his founding an institution for the blind in Vienna. In 1880, he was made an honorary citizen of Vienna.

Frankl died on 12 March 1894, in Vienna.