Ludwig August (Abraham Elazar) Frankl, (1810–1894), Austrian poet, secretary of the Vienna Jewish community, and founder of the Laemel School in Jerusalem. Born in Chrast, Bohemia, Frankl was one of the first Jews to attend a Bohemian secondary school. He also received a sound Jewish education under his relative, Zacharias Frankel . Although he studied medicine at Vienna and Padua, he devoted himself mainly to literature. The patriotic flavor of Frankl's first collection of ballads, Das Habsburgerlied (1832), brought him a reward from Emperor Francis I. It was followed by Morgenlaendische Sagen (1834), a volume of poems on Jewish themes, and by the epic Christoforo Colombo (1836), for which he was made an honorary citizen of Genoa, the explorer's birthplace. In 1838 Frankl was appointed secretary and archivist of the Vienna Jewish community. The post enabled him to publish various works of Jewish interest, including a history of the Jews in Vienna (1853), but he really made his name as editor, from 1842, of the Sonntagsblaetter, which brought him into the circle of Austria's literary elite. In later years he was to publish studies of such of his new acquaintances as the dramatist Franz Grillparzer and the poet Nikolaus Lenau, but he also encouraged new writers, notably Moritz Hartmann and Leopold Kompert . His use of the elegant Sonntagsblaetter in support of the 1848 Revolution led to the paper's eventual suppression. During the Revolution Frankl served as an officer in the students' legion and achieved fame with his revolutionary lyric Die Universitaet, the first uncensored Austrian publication, which was circulated in half-a-million copies and was set to music no less than 28 different times: Frankl later edited the works of the revolutionary writer Anastasius Gruen (1877), and their correspondence was published by Frankl's son, Lothar. As the representative of Elisa Herz, Frankl went to Jerusalem in 1856 and, in memory of her father, founded the Laemel School, which offered Jewish children a secular, as well as a religious, education. This aroused violent opposition on the part of the ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi community, whose rabbinate placed Frankl under the ban of excommunicationOther works of Jewish interest are Frankl's Elegien (1842), Rachel (1842), Libanon (1855), and Ahnenbilder (1864). In 1876 he founded the Vienna Jewish Institute for the Blind, his philanthropic endeavors being rewarded with ennoblement as Ritter von Frankl-Hochwart. His memoirs appeared posthumously in 1910.

Added t.p.: Nach Jerusalem! Reise in Griechenland, Kleinasien, Syrien, Palaestina. Von Ludwig August Frankl. Ins Ebraeische uebersetzt von M. E. Stern...
בהקדמת המעתיק: "הספר הזה יצא ראשונה לאור כאחוזת 'חברת מחזיקי פליטת הסופרים ביהודה' הנוסדת מידי חיל... לודוויג פהיליפפזאן... בחמשת אלפים וחמש מאות מחברות ובשני בתי דפוסים... שלטו בן ידי המעתיקים... מגידי החדשות... בארצות צרפת, ספרד, בריטאניא, איטאליא, ואמעריקא הצפוני והמערבי וכהנה... וזה ימים אחדים הופיעה בקרית לאנדאן העתקה, שלימה בשפת אנגלית... תחת שם:
'היהודים בארצות המזרח' [1859 London, East the in Jews The] וזה ימים מספר נעתק כמעט על פני רובו לשפת האללאנדיס בספר קורות היהודים לשנת התרי"ט לפ"ק, היוצא מדי תקופת שנה בשנה מידי א. בעליפאנטע, בגראווענהאגן.. Jaarboekje Nederlandasch". בכמה טפסים רשום מעבר לשער "בשנת התר"כ לפ"ג" במקום "התרי"ט".