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LEHRS, KARL (18o -.1878)

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LEHRS, KARL (18o -.1878) , See also:German classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Konigsberg on the 2nd of See also:June 1802. He was of Jewish extraction, but in 1822 he embraced See also:Christianity. In 1845 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:ancient See also:Greek See also:philology in Konigsberg University, which See also:post he held till his See also:death on the 9th of June 1878. His most important See also:works are: De Aristarchi Studiis Homericis (1833, 2nd ed. by A. Ludwich, 1882), which laid a new See also:foundation for Homeric exegesis (on the Aristarchean lines of explaining See also:Homer from the See also:text itself) and textual See also:criticism; Quaestiones Epicae (1837); De Asclepiade Myrleano (1$45); Herodiani Scripta Fria emendatiora (1848); Populare Aufsatze aus dem Altertum (1856, 2nd much enlarged ed., 1875), his best-known See also:work; Horatius See also:Flaccus (1869), in which, on aesthetic grounds, he rejected many of the odes as See also:spurious; See also:Die Pindarscholien (1873). Lehrs was a See also:man of very decided opinions, " one of the most masculine of German scholars "; his See also:enthusiasm for everything Greek led him to adhere firmly to the undivided authorship of the Iliad; See also:comparative See also:mythology and the symbolical See also:interpretation of myths he regarded as a See also:species of See also:sacrilege. See the exhaustive See also:article by L. Friedlander in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xviii. ; E. Kammer in C. See also:Bursian's Jahresbericht (1879) ; A. See also:Jung, Zur Erinnerung an Karl Lehrs (progr.

Meseritz, 1880); A. Ludwich edited Lehrs' select See also:

correspondence (1894) and his Kleine Schriften (1902).

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