Rudolf Westphal

Rudolf Westphal (July 3, 1826 - July 10, 1892), German classical scholar, was born at Obernkirchen in Schaumburg.

He studied at Marburg and Tübingen, and was professor at Breslau (1858-1862) and Moscow (1875-1879). He subsequently lived at Bückeburg, and died at Stadthagen in Schaumburg-Lippe on the 10th of July 1892.

Westphal was a man of varied attainments, but his chief claim to remembrance rests upon his contributions on Greek music and metre.

His chief works are:
*"Griechische Metrik" (3rd ed., 1885-1889)
*"System der antiken Rhythmik" (1865)
*Hephaestion's "De metris enchiridion" (1866)
*Aristoxenus of Tarentum (translation and commentary, 1883-1893, vol. ii. being edited after his death by F Saran)
*"Die Musik des griechischen Altertums" (1883)
*"Allgemeine Metrik der indogermanischen and semitischen Volker" (1892)He made translations of Catullus (1870) and of Aristophanes' "Acharnians" (1889), in which he successfully reproduced the Dorisms in Low German.----