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HAASE, FRIEDRICH GOTTLOB (1808—1867), German classical scholar, was born at Magdeburg on the 4th of January 18o8. Having studied at Halle, Greifswald and Berlin, he obtained in 1834 an appointment at Schulpforta, from which he was suspended and sentenced to six years' imprisonment for identifying himself with the Burschenschaften (students' associations). Having been released after serving one year of his sentence, he visited Paris, and on his return in 184o he was
appointed	professor	at	Breslau,	where	he	remained	till	his
death on	the	16th	of	August	1867.	He	was undoubtedly
one of the most successful teachers of his day in Germany, and exercised great influence upon all his pupils.
He edited several classic authors: Xenophon (Aa,ceSanioviwv roXerela, 1833) ; Thucydides (1840) ; Velleius Paterculus (1858) ; Seneca the philosopher (2nd ed., 1872, not yet superseded); and Tacitus (1855), the introduction to which isa masterpiece of Latinity. His Vorlesungen fiber lateinische Sprachwissenschaft was published after his death by F. A. Eckstein and H. Peter (1874-188o). See C. Bursian, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883) ; G. Fickert, Friderici Haasii memoria (1868), with a list of works; T. Oelsner in Riibezahl (Schlesische Provinzialblatter), vii. Heft 3 (Breslau, 1868).