Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Loher, Franz von

LOHER, Franz von, German author, b. in Paderborn, Westphalia, 15 Oct., 1818. He studied law, history, natural science, and art at Halle, Munich, Freiburg, and Berlin, and travelled extensively in Europe, Canada, and the United States in 1846-'7. On his return he took an active part in the political uprising in Germany in 1848. He founded the “Westphalische Zeitung,” and was imprisoned by the government for political agitation, but was shortly afterward acquitted after a trial. In 1849 he became assessor of the court of appeal in Paderborn, and was afterward professor in the universities of Munich and Göttingen. Among his works are “Geschichte der Deutschen in Amerika” (1848) and “Land und Leute in der alten und neuen Welt” (3 vols., 1857-'8).