Friedrich Blass (22 January 1843,Osnabrück – 5 March 1907,Halle) was aGerman classical scholar.
After studying atGöttingen andBonn from 1860 to 1863, Blass lectured at severalgymnasia and at theUniversity of Königsberg. In 1876 he was appointed extraordinary professor of classicalphilology atKiel, and ordinary professor in 1881. In 1892 he accepted a professorship atHalle, where he later died.[1]
He frequently visited England, and was intimately acquainted with leading British scholars. He received an honorary degree fromDublin University in 1892, and his readiness to place the results of his labours at the disposal of others, together with the courtesy and kindliness of his disposition, won the respect of all who knew him.[1]
Blass is chiefly known for his works in connection with the study ofGreek oratory:Die Attische Beredsamkeit von Alexander bis auf Augustus (1865);Die attische Beredsamkeit (1868–1880; 2nd ed., 1887–1898), his greatest work; editions for theTeubner series ofAndocides (1880),Antiphon (1871, 2nd ed. 1881–1908, also including the surviving orations ofGorgias,Antisthenes, andAlcidamas),[2]Hypereides (1881, 1894),Demosthenes (Dindorf's ed., 1885),Isocrates (1886),Dinarchus (1888),Demosthenes (Rehdantz ed., 1893),Aeschines (1896),Lycurgus,Leocrates (1902);Die Rhythmen der attischen Kunstprosa (1901);Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa (1905).[1] WithBernhard Gerth, he published an enlarged edition ofKühner's Greek grammar,Ausführliche grammatik der griechischen sprache (1890–1904, four volumes).[3]
Among his other works are editions ofEudoxus of Cnidus (1887), theἈθηναίων πολιτεία (4th ed., 1903), a work of great importance, and Bacchylides (3rd. ed., 1904);Grammatik des neutestamentlichen Griechisch (1902; Eng. trans. by H St John Thackeray, 1905);Hermeneutik und Kritik andPaläographie, Buchwesen, und Handschriftenkunde (vol. i. of Müller'sHandbuch der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, 1891);Über die Aussprache des Griechischen (1888; Eng. trans. by W. J. Purton, 1890);Die Interpolationen in der Odyssee (1904); contributions toCollitz'sSammlung der griechischen Dialektinschriften; editions of the texts of certain portions of theNew Testament (Gospels andActs). His last work was an edition of theChoephori (1906).[1]
See notices in theAcademy, 16 March 1907 (JP Mahaffy);Classical Review, May 1907 (JE Sandys), which contains also a review ofDie Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa.[1]
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