Definition of Jacob Philipp Fallmerayer

What does the word Jacob Philipp Fallmerayer mean?

• part of speech: noun

  A German historian and voyager; born in the Tyroi, Dec. 10, 1790; died in Munich, April 26, 1861. As a scholar, especially linguist, and as an explorer of the Orient, his fame is international and his work authoritative; witness "Fragments from the Orient" (1845), "History of the Peninsula of Morea in the Middle Ages" (1830), and other important writings.