KARL

LEHRS (18o -.1878)  , German classical scholar, was born at Konigsberg on the 2nd of June 1802 . He was of Jewish extraction, but in 1822 he embraced Christianity . In 1845 he was appointed professor of ancient Greek philology in Konigsberg University, which post he held till his death on the 9th of June 1878 . His most important works are: De Aristarchi Studiis Homericis (1833, 2nd ed. by A . Ludwich, 1882), which laid a new foundation for Homeric exegesis (on the Aristarchean lines of explaining Homer from the text itself) and textual 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 work; Horatius Flaccus (1869), in which, on aesthetic grounds, he rejected many of the odes as spurious; Die Pindarscholien (1873) . Lehrs was a man of very decided opinions, " one of the most masculine of German scholars "; his enthusiasm for everything Greek led him to adhere firmly to the undivided authorship of the Iliad; comparative mythology and the symbolical interpretation of myths he regarded as a species of sacrilege . See the exhaustive article by L . Friedlander in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xviii . ; E . Kammer in C . Bursian's Jahresbericht (1879) ; A . Jung, Zur Erinnerung an Karl Lehrs (progr .

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

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