RUDOLF

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• RUDOLF WESTPHAL (1826—1892)

WESTPHAL (1826—1892)  , German classical scholar, was born at Obernkirchen in Schaumburg on the 3rd of July 1826 . He studied at Marburg and Tubingen, and was professor at Breslau (1858—1862) and Moscow (1875-1879) . He subsequently lived at Biickeburg, and died at Stadthagen in Schaum burg-Lippe on the loth of July 1892 . Westphal was a man of varied attainments, but his chief claim to remembrance rests upon his contributions on Greek music and metre . His chief works are: Griechische Metrik (3rd ed., 1885—1889); System der antiken Rhythmik (1865); Hephaestion's De metris enchiridion (1866); Aristoxenus of Tarentum (translation and commentary, 1883—1893, vol. ii. being edited after his death by F . Saran); Die Musik des griechischen Altertums (1883); Allgemeine Metrik der indogermanischen and semitischen Volker (1892) . He made translations of Catullus (187o) and of Aristophanes' Acharnians (1889), in which he successfully reproduced the Dorisms in Plattdeutsch .