JOHANN WILHELM ADOLF See also:

• KIRCHHOFF, GUSTAV ROBERT (1824-1887)
• JOHANN WILHELM ADOLF KIRCHHOFF (1826-1908)

KIRCHHOFF (1826-1908)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German classical See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar and epigraphist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin on the 6th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1826 . In 1865 he was appointed See also:

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

professor of classical See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology in the university of his native See also:

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

city . He died on the 26th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1908 . He is the author of See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Homerische Odyssee (1859), putting forward an entirely new theory as to the See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition of the Odyssey; See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of See also:

• PLOTINUS (A.D. 204-270)

Plotinus (1856), See also:

• EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

Euripides (1855 and 1877-1878) . See also:

• AESCHYLUS (525–456 B.c.)

Aeschylus (188o), See also:

• HESIOD

Hesiod (See also:

• WORKS

Works and Days, 1889), See also:

• XENOPHON

Xenophon, On the Athenian Constitution (3rd ed., 1889); Uber die Entstehungszeit See also:

• DES

des Herodotischen Geschichtswerkes (2nd ed., 1878); Thukydides and sein Urkundenmaterial (1895) . The following works are the result of his epigraphical and palaeographical studies: Die Umbrischen Sprachdenkmaler (1851); Das Stadtrecht von Bantia (1853), on the tablet discovered in 1790 at Oppido near Banzi, containing a See also:

• PLEBISCITE (Lat. plebiscitum, a decree of the plebs)

plebiscite See also:

• RELATING

relating to the municipal affairs of the See also:

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

ancient Bantia; Das Gotische Runenalphabet (1852); Die Frankischen Runen (1855) ; Studien zur Geschichte des Griechischen Alphabets (4th ed., 1887) . The second See also:

• PART

part of vol. iv. of the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum (1859, containing the See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions) and vol. i. of the C . I . Atticarum (1873, containing the inscriptions before 403) with supplements thereto (vol. iv. pts . 1–3, 1877-1891) are edited by him .