Lasaulx, Ernst Von

Lasaulx, Ernst von a German antiquarian, was born at Coblentz, March 16, 1805. He studied at Bonn and Munich, spent some time at Vienna, Rome, Athens, Constantinople, and Jerusalem, was in 1835 professor of philology at Wurzburg, in 1844 professor at Munich, and was deposed in 1847. In 1848 he was a member of the German National Assembly, and went with the Roman Catholic fraction in all religious questions. In 1849 he was reappointed to his professorship, and died May 10, 1861. He published, Der Untergang des Hellenismus durch die christlichen Kaiser (Munich, 1854): — Die Philosophie der schoinen Kiinste (1860): — Ueber die theologische Grundlage aller philosophischlin Systeme (1856): — Wahrheit der Thatsachen gegrundeter Philosophie der Geschichte (eod.): — Des Sokrates Leben, Lehre und Tod (1857): — Die prophetische Kraft der menschlichen Seele in Dichtern und Denkern (1858). The last four books were put on the papal index. See Holland, Erinnerungen an Ernst von Lasaulx (Munich, 1861). (B.P.)