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See also:

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

JAHN (1813—1869)  , German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music, was born at Kiel on the 16th of June 1813 . After the completion of his university studies at Kiel, Leipzig and Berlin, he travelled for three years in France and Italy; in 1839 he became privatdocent at Kiel, and in 1842 professor-extraordinary of archaeology and philology at Greifswald (ordinary professor 1845) . In 1847 he accepted the chair of archaeology at Leipzig, of which he was deprived in 1851 for having.taken part in the political movements of 1848--1849 . In 1855 he was appointed professor of the science of antiquity, and director of the academical art museum at Bonn, and in 1867 he was called to succeed E . Gerhard at Berlin . He died at Gottingen, on the 9th of . September 1869 . The following are the most important of his works: 1 . Archaeological: Palamedes (1836); Telephos u . Troilos (1841); Die Gemalde des Polygnot (1841) ; Pentheus u. die Manaden (1841) ; Paris u . Oinone (1844); Die hellenische' Kunst (1846) ; Peitho, die Gottin der Uberredung (1847); Iber einige Darstellungen des Paris-Urteils (1849) ; Die Ficoronische Cista (1852) ; Pausaniae descriptio arcis Athenaeum (3rd ed., 1901); Darstellungen griechischer Dichter auf Vasenbildern (1861) . 2 .

Philological:

Critical editions of Juvena , Persius and Sulpicla (3rd ed. by F . Biicheler, 1893) ; Censorinus r5) ; Florus (1852) ; Cicero's Brutus (4th ed., 1877) ; and Orator d ed., 186) ; the Periochae of Livy (1853) ; the Psyche et Cupido of Apuleius (3rd ed., 1884; 5th ed., 1905) ; Longinus (1867; 3rd ed. by J . Vahlen, 1905) . 3 . Biographical and aesthetic: Veber Mendelssohn's Paulus (1842); Biographie Mozarts, a work of extraordinary labour, and of great importance for the history of music (3rd ed. by H . Disters, 1889–1891 ; Eng. trans. by P . D . Townsend,1891) ; Ludwig Uhland (1863) ; Gesammelte Aufsatze fiber Musik (1866) ; Biographische Aufsdtze (1866) . His Griechische Bilderchroniken was published after his death, by his nephew A . Michaelis, who has written an exhaustive biography in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xiii . ; see also J . Vahlen, Otto Jahn (187o) ; C .

Bursian, Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland .