REINHOLD

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• REINHOLD KLOTZ (1807-1870)

KLOTZ (1807-1870)  , German classical scholar, was born near Chemnitz in Saxony on the 13th of March 1807 . In 1849 he was appointed professor in the university of Leipzig in succession to Gottfried Hermann, and held this post till his death on the loth of August 1870 . Klotz was a man of unwearied industry, and devoted special attention to Latin literature . He was the author of editions of several classical authors, of which the most important were: the complete works of Cicero (2nd ed., 1869–1874); Clement of Alexandria (1831–1834); Euripides (1841–1867), in continuation of Pflugk's edition, but unfinished; Terence (1838–184o), with the commentaries of Donatus and Eugraphius . Mention should also be made of : Handworterbuch der lateinischen Sprache (5th ed., 1874) ; Romische Litteraturgeschichte (1847), of which only the introductory volume appeared; an edition of the treatise De Graecae linguae particulis (1835–1842) of Matthaeus Deverius (Devares), a learned Corfiote (c . 1500-1570), and corrector of the Greek MSS. in the Vatican; the posthumous Index Ciceronianus (1872) and Handbuch der lateinischen Stilistik (1874) . From 1831–1855 Klotz was editor of the Neue Jahrbucher fur Philologie (Leipzig) . During the troubled times of 1848 and the following years he showed himself a strong conservative . A memoir by his son Richard will be found in the Jahrbucher for 1871, PP . 154–163 .