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CARL FELIX HALM (18o9-1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 863 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FELIX HALM (18o9-1882)  , German classical scholar and critic, was born at Munich on the 5th of
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April 1809 . In 1849, after having held appointments at Spires and Hadamar, he became rector of the newly founded Maximiliansgymnasium at Munich, and in 1856 director of the royal library and professor in the university . These posts he held till his
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death on the 5th of
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October 1882 . It is chiefly as the editor of
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Cicero and other Latin
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prose authors that Halm is known, although in early years he also devoted considerable attention to Greek . After the death of J . C . Orelli, he joined J . G . Baiter in the preparation of a revised critical edition of the rhetorical and philosophical writings of Cicero (1854-1862) . His school
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editions of some of the speeches of Cicero in the Haupt and Sauppe series, with notes and introductions, were very successful . He also edited a number of classical texts for the Teubner series, the most important of which are Tacitus (4th ed., 1883); Rhetores Latini minores (1863); Quintilian (1868); Sulpicius Severus (1866); Minucius Felix together with Firmicus Maternus De errore(1867); Salvianus (1877) and Victor Vitensis's Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae (1878) . He was also an enthusiastic
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collector of
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autographs .

See articles by W .

Christ and G . Laubmann in Allgemeine deutsche Biographic and by C . Bursian in Biographisches Jahrbuch; and J . E . Sandys, Dist. of Classical Scholarship, iii . 195 (1908) .

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