A. E. Wollheim Da Fonseca
Anton Eduard Wollheim da Fonseca; also known as Wollheim von SeckaDeath register no. 2064/1884, StA Berlin IX (12 February 1810 – d. 24 October 1884) was a German writer, dramaturge, linguist and diplomat. Education and military life He was born in Hamburg, the son of the Jewish merchant Hirsch Wollheim and his wife Antonie, née von Secka. He attended secondary school in Wrocław (then known by its German name as Breslau) and in Hamburg. He then studied philosophy, philology, history and political science in Berlin and earned a doctorate there in 1831 for his analysis in Latin of some chapters of the Sanskrit Padma Purana, Padma-Purāṇa, an encyclopedic Vaishnavism, Vaiṣṇava religious text. During a subsequent study trip to Paris, Wollheim became engaged to the daughter of a Portuguese nobleman and was motivated by this to fight in the Liberal Wars, Portuguese Civil War in the army of Prince Pedro de Alcântara, who later became Emperor Pedro I of Brazil. After ...
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