WILHELM SIEGMUND

TEUFFEL (1820–1878)  , German classical scholar, was born at Ludwigsburg in the kingdom of Wurttemberg on the 27th of September 1820 . In 1849 he was appointed extraordinary, in 1857 ordinary professor in the university of Tubingen, which post he held till his death on the 8th of March 1878 . His most important work was his Geschichte der romischen Litteratur (1870; 5th ed. by L . Schwabe, 1890; Eng. tr. by G . C . Warr, 1900), which, although written in an unattractive style, is indispensable to the student, the bibliographical information being especially valuable . After the death of A . Pauly, the editor of the well-known Real Encydopodie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Teuffel, ae first assisted by E . C . Walz, undertook the completion of the work, to which he also contributed numerous articles . He was also the author of " Prolegomena zur Chronologie der horazischen Gedichte " (in Zeitschrift fur die Altertumswissenschaft, 1842): Charakteristik des Horaz (Leipzig, 1842) ; Horaz, eine litterar-historische Uhersicht (Tubingen, 1843), and of editions of the Clouds of Aristophanes (1856) and the Persae of Aeschylus (1866) . His Studien and Charakteristiken (1871: 2nd ed., 1889) literature .

See S . Teuffel, Wilhelm Teuffel (1889) ; C .

Bursian in Biographisches Jahrbuch (1878); F . Koldewey in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, xxxvii .