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JAHN, OTTO (1813—1869)

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JAHN, See also:OTTO (1813—1869) , See also:German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on See also:art and See also:music, was See also:born at See also:Kiel on the 16th of See also:June 1813. After the completion of his university studies at Kiel, See also:Leipzig and See also:Berlin, he travelled for three years in See also:France and See also:Italy; in 1839 he became privatdocent at Kiel, and in 1842 See also:professor-extraordinary of See also:archaeology and See also:philology at Greifswald (See also:ordinary professor 1845). In 1847 he accepted the See also:chair of archaeology at Leipzig, of which he was deprived in 1851 for having.taken See also:part in the See also:political movements of 1848--1849. In 1855 he was appointed professor of the See also:science of antiquity, and director of the academical art museum at See also:Bonn, and in 1867 he was called to succeed E. See also:Gerhard at Berlin. He died at See also:Gottingen, on the 9th of. See also:September 1869. The following are the most important of his See also:works: 1. Archaeological: See also:Palamedes (1836); Telephos u. Troilos (1841); See also:Die Gemalde See also:des Polygnot (1841) ; See also:Pentheus u. die Manaden (1841) ; See also:Paris u. Oinone (1844); Die hellenische' Kunst (1846) ; Peitho, die Gottin der Uberredung (1847); Iber einige Darstellungen des Paris-Urteils (1849) ; Die Ficoronische Cista (1852) ; Pausaniae descriptio arcis See also:Athenaeum (3rd ed., 1901); Darstellungen griechischer Dichter auf Vasenbildern (1861). 2.

Philological: See also:

Critical See also:editions of Juvena , See also:Persius and Sulpicla (3rd ed. by F. Biicheler, 1893) ; Censorinus r5) ; See also:Florus (1852) ; See also:Cicero's See also:Brutus (4th ed., 1877) ; and Orator d ed., 186) ; the Periochae of See also:Livy (1853) ; the See also:Psyche et Cupido of See also:Apuleius (3rd ed., 1884; 5th ed., 1905) ; See also:Longinus (1867; 3rd ed. by J. Vahlen, 1905). 3. See also:Biographical and aesthetic: Veber Mendelssohn's See also:Paulus (1842); Biographie Mozarts, a See also:work of extraordinary labour, and of See also:great importance for the See also:history of music (3rd ed. by H. Disters, 1889–1891 ; Eng. trans. by P. D. Townsend,1891) ; See also:Ludwig See also:Uhland (1863) ; Gesammelte Aufsatze fiber Musik (1866) ; Biographische Aufsdtze (1866). His Griechische Bilderchroniken was published after his See also:death, by his See also:nephew A. See also:Michaelis, who has written an exhaustive See also:biography in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xiii. ; see also J. Vahlen, Otto Jahn (187o) ; C.

See also:

Bursian, Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland.

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