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WESTPHAL, RUDOLF (1826—1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 556 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WESTPHAL, See also:RUDOLF (1826—1892) , See also:German classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at Obernkirchen in Schaumburg on the 3rd of See also:July 1826. He studied at See also:Marburg and See also:Tubingen, and was See also:professor at See also:Breslau (1858—1862) and See also:Moscow (1875-1879). He subsequently lived at Biickeburg, and died at Stadthagen in Schaum See also:burg-See also:Lippe on the loth of July 1892. Westphal was a See also:man of varied attainments, but his See also:chief claim to remembrance rests upon his contributions on See also:Greek See also:music and See also:metre. His chief See also:works are: Griechische Metrik (3rd ed., 1885—1889); See also:System der antiken Rhythmik (1865); See also:Hephaestion's De metris enchiridion (1866); See also:Aristoxenus of See also:Tarentum (See also:translation and commentary, 1883—1893, vol. ii. being edited after his See also:death by F. See also:Saran); See also:Die Musik See also:des griechischen Altertums (1883); Allgemeine Metrik der indogermanischen and semitischen Volker (1892). He made See also:translations of See also:Catullus (187o) and of See also:Aristophanes' Acharnians (1889), in which he successfully reproduced the Dorisms in Plattdeutsch.

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