JOHANN

CHRISTIAN

See also:

• FELIX
• FELIX, ANTONIUS
• FELIX, LIA (1830– )

FELIX

See also:

• JOHANN CHRISTIAN FELIX BAEHR (1798–1872)

BAEHR (1798–1872)  , German philologist, was born at Darmstadt on the 13th of June 1798 . He studied at the university of Heidelberg where he was appointed professor of classical philology in 1823, chief librarian in 1832, and on the retirement of G . F . Creuzer became director of the philological seminary . He died at Heidelberg on the 29th of November 1872 . His earliest works were editions of Plutarch's .Alcibiades (1822), Philopoemen, Flamininus, Pyrrhus (1826), the fragments of Ctesias (1824), and Herodotus (1830–1835, 1855–1862) . But most important of all were his works on Roman literature and humanistic studies in the middle ages: Geschichte der romischen Litteratur (4th ed., 1868–1870), and the supplementary volumes, Die christlichen Dichter and Geschichtschreiber Routs (2nd ed.,1872), Die christlich-romische Theologie (1837), Geschichte der romischen Litteratur im karolingischen Zeitalter (184o) .