WILHELM VON

CHRIST (1831-1906)  , German classical scholar, was born in Geisenheim in Hesse-Nassau on the 2nd of August 1831 . From 1854 till 186o he taught in the Maximiliansgymnasium at Munich, and in 1861 was appointed professor of classical philology in the university . His most important works are his Geschichte der griechischen Literatur (5th ed., 19(38 f.), a history of Greek literature down to the time of Justinian, one of the best works on the subject; Metrik der Griechen and Romer (1879); editions of Pindar (1887); of the Patina (1878) and Metaphysica (1895) of Aristotle; Iliad (1884) . His contributions to the Sitzungsberichte and Abhandlungen of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences are particularly valuable . See O . Crusius, Gedkchtnisrede (Munich, 1907) .