WINDISCHMANN, FRIEDRICH

Son of the philosopher and physician Karl Josef W., professor at the University of Bonn, he graduated in philology in 1832 with the edition of the Sanskrit poem Sancara sive de theologumque Vedantium (Bonn 1833). In 1835 he also obtained a degree in theology at Munich and was ordained priest. Secretary to the Archbishop of Munich-Freising (1836–38), professor of exegesis and canon law at the faculty of theology (1838–40), canon of the metropolitan chapter, and vicar general of the diocese (1840–56), under Archbishop Reisch he conducted, after 1848, negotiations with the Bavarian government for the execution of the Concordat. He did not, however, neglect Oriental studies. Among his writings are: Ursagen der arischen Völker (Munich 1852); Die persische Anathia (Munich 1856); Mithra. Ein Beitrag zur Mythengeschichte des Orients (Leipzig 1857). From 1842 he was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.