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Karl Lehrs


Died
  
June 9, 1878, Konigsberg

Karl Lehrs

Karl Ludwig Lehrs (January 14, 1802 – June 9, 1878), was a German classical scholar.

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Born at Königsberg, he was of Jewish extraction, but in 1822 he converted to Christianity. In 1845 he was appointed professor of ancient Greek philology at Königsberg University, a post he held until his death.

His most important works are:

  • De Aristarchi Studiis Homericis (1833), 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 (1845).
  • Herodiani Scripta Tria emendatiora. Accedunt Analecta (1848).
  • Populäre Aufsätze aus dem Altertum (1856, Second much enlarged edition, 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 decided opinions; his enthusiasm for everything Greek caused him to insist on the undivided authorship of the Iliad; comparative mythology and the symbolical interpretation of myths he regarded as a species of sacrilege.

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