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FERDINAND GOTTHELF HAND (1786-185r)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 910 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FERDINAND GOTTHELF HAND (1786-185r)  , German classical scholar, was born at
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Plauen in Saxony on the 15th of
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February 1786 . He studied at
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Leipzig. in 18ro became professor at the
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Weimar gymnasium, and in 1817 professor of philosophy and Greek literature in the university of
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Jena, where he remained till his
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death on the 14th of March 1851 . The
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work by which Hand is chiefly known is his (unfinished) edition of the
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treatise of Horatius Tursellinus (Orazio Torsellino, 1545–1599) on the Latin particles (Tursellinus, seu de particulis Latinis commentarii, 1829–1845) . Like his treatise on Latin style (Lehrbuch
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des lateinischen Stils, 3rd ed. by H . L . Schmitt, 1880), it is too abstruse and philosophical for the use of the ordinary student . Hand was also an enthusiastic musician, and in his Asthetik der Tonkunst (1837–1841) he was the first to introduce the subject of musical
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aesthetics . The first
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part of the last-named work has been translated into
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English by W . E . Lawson (Aesthetics of Musical
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Art, or The Beautiful in
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Music, 1880), and B . Sears's Classical Studies (1849) contains a "
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History of the Origin and Progress of the Latin Language," abridged from Hand's work on the subject . There is a memoir of his
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life and work by G .

Queck (Jena, 1852) .

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