JOHANN GOTTFRIED See also:

• JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

JAKOB See also:

• JOHANN GOTTFRIED JAKOB HERMANN (1772–1848)
• HERMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1804–1855)

HERMANN (1772–1848)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German classical See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar and philologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig on the 28th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1772 . Entering the university of his native See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of fourteen, See also:

• HERMANN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED JAKOB (1772–1848)
• HERMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1804–1855)

Hermann at first studied See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, which he soon abandoned for the See also:

• CLASSICS

classics . After a session at See also:

• JENA

Jena in 1793–1794, he became a lecturer on classical literature in Leipzig, in 1798 See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor extraordinarius of See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy in the university, and in 1803 professor of eloquence (and See also:

• POETRY

poetry, 1809) . He died on the 31st of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December '848 . Hermann maintained that an accurate knowledge of the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek and Latin See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages was the only road to a clear understanding of the intellectual See also:

• LIFE

life of the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• WORLD

world, and the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief, if not the only, aim of See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology . As the See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader of this grammatico-See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical school, he came into collision with A . See also:

• BOCKH, PHILIPP AUGUST (1785-1867)

Bockh and Otfried See also:

• MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
• MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
• MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
• MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
• MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
• MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
• MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
• MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
• MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
• MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)

Muller, the representatives of the historico-antiquarian school, which regarded Hermann's view of philology as inadequate and one-sided . Hermann devoted his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to the classical poetical metres, and published several See also:

• WORKS

works on that subject, the most important being Elementa doctrinae metricae (18'6), in which he set forth a scientific theory based on the Kantian categories . His writings on Greek See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar are also valuable, especially De emendanda ratione Graecae grammaticae (18o'), and notes and excursus on Viger's See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on Greek idioms . His See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of the classics include several of the plays of See also:

• EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

Euripides; the Clouds of See also:

• ARISTOPHANES
• ARISTOPHANES (c. 448–385 B.e.1)

Aristophanes (1799); Trinummus of See also:

• PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS (originally perhaps MACCUS; cf. Asin. Prol. 11)

Plautus ('Soo); Poetica of See also:

• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle (1802); Orphica (1805); the Homeric See also:

• HYMNS

Hymns (18o6); and the See also:

• LEXICON

Lexicon of See also:

• PHOTIUS
• PHOTIUS (c. 82o-891)

Photius (18o8) . In 1825 Hermann finished the edition of See also:

• SOPHOCLES (495-406 B.c.)

Sophocles begun by Erfurdt . His edition of See also:

• AESCHYLUS (525–456 B.c.)

Aeschylus was published after his See also:

• DEATH

death in '852 .

The Opuscula, a collection of his smaller writings in Latin, appeared in seven volumes between 1827 and 1839 . See monographs by O . See also:

• JAHN, FRIEDRICH LUDWIG (1778-1852)
• JAHN, JOHANN (1750—1816)
• JAHN, OTTO (1813—1869)

Jahn (1849) and H . Kochly (1874); C . See also:

• BURSIAN, CONRAD (1830–1883)

Bursian, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883) ; See also:

• ART

art. in Allgem. deutsche Biog . ; See also:

• SANDYS, FREDERICK (1832-1904)
• SANDYS, GEORGE (1578-1644)
• SANDYS, SIR EDWIN (1561-1629)

Sandys, His' . Class . Schol. iii .