Carl Mayrhofer was a son of physician, he was recognized as an unusually bright student first at Kremsmünster Gymnasium, then at the Vienna University.
If the phrase “life’s work” is justified for a particular achievement, in the case of Mayrhofer that would be his lifelong occupation with an etymological dictionary of the Old Indo-Aryan language.
Mayrhofer was born in Steyr, Austria, educated at Novitiate in St. Florian's Priory, Upper Austria. In 1810 he began to study jurisprudence and theology at the University of Vienna, both of which courses he finished.
Ludvík Gaston Sasko-Kobursko-Gothajský (Ludvík Gaston Klemens Maria Michal Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga; 15. září 1870, Ebenthal in Kärnten – 23. ledna 1942, Innsbruck), v Brazílii znám jako Dom Luís Gastão, byl německým princem z rodu Koburků a…