Aloys Ignatz Christoph Sprenger (1813–93)

Austrian orientalist and physician. Attended university in Vienna, 1832–6; moved to London and became secretary to the earl of Munster, 1836; MD, Leiden, 1840. Appointed to the medical service of the East India Company, 1843; principal of Delhi College, 1845–7; translator to the government of India, 1850–4; travelled in the Middle East, 1854–6; professor of oriental languages, Bern university, 1858–83. Catalogued, edited, and published articles on many Indian and Arabic works and wrote a biography of Muhammad, Das Leben und die Lehre des Mohammad (1861–5).