- Friedrich Blass
Friedrich Blass (
January 22 1843 –March 5 1907 ) was a German classical scholar fromOsnabrück .After studying at Göttingen and Bonn from 1860 to 1863, he lectured at several gymnasia and at the
University of Königsberg . In 1876 he was appointed extraordinary professor of classicalphilology at Kiel, and ordinary professor in 1881. In 1892 he accepted a professorship at Halle, where he later died.He frequently visited
England , and was intimately acquainted with leading British scholars. He received an honorary degree from Dublin University in 1892, and his readiness to place the results of his labours at the disposal of others, together with the courtesy and kindliness of his disposition, won the respect of all who knew him.Blass is chiefly known for his works in connection with the study of Greek oratory: "Die griechische Beredsamkeit von Alexander bis auf Augustus" (1865); "Die attische Beredsamkeit" (1868-1880; 2nd ed., 1887-1898), his greatest work; editions for the
Teubner series of "Andocides " (1880), "Antiphon" (1881), "Hypereides " (1881, 1894), "Demosthenes " (Dindorf's ed., 1885), "Isocrates " (1886), Dinarchus (1888), Demosthenes (Rehdantz ed., 1893), "Aeschines " (1896), "Lycurgus ", "Leocrates " (1902); "Die Rhythmen der attischen Kunstprosa" (1901); "Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa" (1905). He published an enlarged edition of Kuhner's "Greek Grammar" (1890-1904).Among his other works are editions of
Eudoxus of Cnidus (1887), a work of great importance, and Bacchylides (3rd. ed., 1904); "Grammatik des neutestamentlichen Griechisch" (1902; Eng. trans. by H St John Thackeray, 1905); "Hermeneuisik und Kritik" and "Paläographie, Buchwesen, und Handschriftenkunde" (vol. i. of Müller's "Handbuch der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft", 1891); "Uber die Aussprache des Griechischen" (1888; Eng. trans. by W. J. Purton, 1890); "Die Interpolationen in der Odyssee" (1904); contributions to Collitz's "Sammlung der griechischen Dialektinschriften"; editions of the texts of certain portions of theNew Testament (Gospel s and Acts). His last work was an edition of the "Choephori" (1906).See notices in the "Academy,"
16 March 1907 (JP Mahaffy); "Classical Review," May 1907 (JE Sandys), which contains also a review of "Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa".References
*1911
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