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HERMANN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED See also:JAKOB (1772–1848) , See also:German classical See also:scholar and philologist, was See also:born at See also:Leipzig on the 28th of See also:November 1772. Entering the university of his native See also:city at the See also:age of fourteen, Hermann at first studied See also:law, which he soon abandoned for the See also:classics. After a session at See also:Jena in 1793–1794, he became a lecturer on classical literature in Leipzig, in 1798 See also:professor extraordinarius of See also:philosophy in the university, and in 1803 professor of eloquence (and See also:poetry, 1809). He died on the 31st of See also:December '848. Hermann maintained that an accurate knowledge of the See also:Greek and Latin See also:languages was the only road to a clear understanding of the intellectual See also:life of the See also:ancient See also:world, and the See also:chief, if not the only, aim of See also:philology. As the See also:leader of this grammatico-See also:critical school, he came into collision with A. See also:Bockh and Otfried See also:Muller, the representatives of the historico-antiquarian school, which regarded Hermann's view of philology as inadequate and one-sided. Hermann devoted his See also:early See also:attention to the classical poetical metres, and published several See also:works on that subject, the most important being Elementa doctrinae metricae (18'6), in which he set forth a scientific theory based on the Kantian categories. His writings on Greek See also:grammar are also valuable, especially De emendanda ratione Graecae grammaticae (18o'), and notes and excursus on Viger's See also:treatise on Greek idioms. His See also:editions of the classics include several of the plays of See also:Euripides; the Clouds of See also:Aristophanes (1799); Trinummus of See also:Plautus ('Soo); Poetica of See also:Aristotle (1802); Orphica (1805); the Homeric See also:Hymns (18o6); and the See also:Lexicon of See also:Photius (18o8). In 1825 Hermann finished the edition of See also:Sophocles begun by Erfurdt. His edition of See also:Aeschylus was published after his See also:death in '852.

The Opuscula, a collection of his smaller writings in Latin, appeared in seven volumes between 1827 and 1839. See monographs by O. See also:

Jahn (1849) and H. Kochly (1874); C. See also:Bursian, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883) ; See also:art. in Allgem. deutsche Biog. ; See also:Sandys, His'. Class. Schol. iii.

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