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NITZSCH, GREGOR WILHELM (179x-1861) , See also:German classical See also:scholar, See also:brother of Karl Immanuel Nitzsch, was See also:born at See also:Wittenberg on the 22nd of See also:November 1790. In 2827 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:ancient literature at See also:Kiel, but in 1852 was dismissed by the Danish See also:government for his German sympathies. In the same See also:year he accepted a similar See also:post at See also:Leipzig, which he held till his See also:death on the 22nd of See also:July 1861. Nitzsch is chiefly known for his writings on the Homeric epic. In opposition to See also:Wolf and See also:Lachmann, he maintained that the Iliad and Odyssey were not an aggregate of single See also:short poems, but See also:long See also:complete poems, composed by one and the same author according to a See also:uniform See also:plan with a central dramatic See also:idea. His son,KARL WILHELM NITZSCH (1818–188o),became professor of See also:history at See also:Konigsberg in 1862, and at See also:Berlin in 1872. he most important of his See also:works were: Erkldrende Anmerkungen zu See also:Homer's Odyssee, i.-xii. (1826–184o) ; See also:Die Sagenpoesie der Griechen (1852); Beitrage zur Geschichte der epischen Poesie der Griechen (pub. 1862, ed. C. W. Nitzsch).

See memoir by F. Liibker (1864); C. See also:

Bursian, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883) and J. E. See also:Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. iii. (1908), p. 105.

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