KARL See also:

• KARL LEHRS (18o -.1878)

LEHRS (18o -.1878)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German classical See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• KONIGSBERG (Polish Krolewiec)

Konigsberg on the 2nd of See also:

• JUNE

June 1802 . He was of Jewish extraction, but in 1822 he embraced See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity . In 1845 he was appointed See also:

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

professor of See also:

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

ancient See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology in Konigsberg University, which See also:

• POST

post he held till his See also:

• DEATH

death on the 9th of June 1878 . His most important See also:

• WORKS

works are: De Aristarchi Studiis Homericis (1833, 2nd ed. by A . Ludwich, 1882), which laid a new See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation for Homeric exegesis (on the Aristarchean lines of explaining See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer from the See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text itself) and textual See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism; Quaestiones Epicae (1837); De Asclepiade Myrleano (1$45); Herodiani Scripta Fria emendatiora (1848); Populare Aufsatze aus dem Altertum (1856, 2nd much enlarged ed., 1875), his best-known See also:

• WORK

work; Horatius See also:

• FLACCUS

Flaccus (1869), in which, on aesthetic grounds, he rejected many of the odes as See also:

• SPURIOUS

spurious; See also:

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

Die Pindarscholien (1873) . See also:

• LEHRS, KARL (18o -.1878)

Lehrs was a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of very decided opinions, " one of the most masculine of German scholars "; his See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm for everything Greek led him to adhere firmly to the undivided authorship of the Iliad; See also:

• COMPARATIVE

comparative See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology and the symbolical See also:

• INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation of myths he regarded as a See also:

• SPECIES

species of See also:

• SACRILEGE

sacrilege . See the exhaustive See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article by L . Friedlander in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xviii . ; E . Kammer in C . See also:

• BURSIAN, CONRAD (1830–1883)

Bursian's Jahresbericht (1879) ; A . See also:

• JUNG, JOHANN HEINRICH (1740-1817)

Jung, Zur Erinnerung an Karl Lehrs (progr .

Meseritz, 1880); A . Ludwich edited Lehrs' select See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence (1894) and his Kleine Schriften (1902) .