Friedrich Blass (22 January 1843,

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5 March 1907, Halle) was a German classical scholar.

Biography

After studying at

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and

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from 1860 to 1863, Blass lectured at several gymnasia and at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Pruss ...

. In 1876 he was appointed extraordinary professor of classical

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

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, and ordinary professor in 1881. In 1892 he accepted a professorship at Halle, where he later died. He frequently visited England, and was intimately acquainted with leading British scholars. He received an honorary degree from Dublin 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. Blass is chiefly known for his works in connection with the study of Greek oratory: ''Die Attische Beredsamkeit von Alexander bis auf Augustus'' (1865); ''Die attische Beredsamkeit'' (1868–1880; 2nd ed., 1887–1898), his greatest work; editions for the

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series of ''

Andocides Andocides (; grc-gre, Ἀνδοκίδης, ''Andokides''; c. 440 – c. 390 BC) was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium an ...

'' (1880), ''

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'' (1881), ''

Hypereides Hypereides or Hyperides ( grc-gre, Ὑπερείδης, ''Hypereidēs''; c. 390 – 322 BC; English pronunciation with the stress variably on the penultimate or antepenultimate syllable) was an Athenian logographer (speech writer). He was one ...

'' (1881, 1894), ''

Demosthenes Demosthenes (; el, Δημοσθένης, translit=Dēmosthénēs; ; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual pr ...

'' ( Dindorf's ed., 1885), '' Isocrates'' (1886), '' Dinarchus'' (1888), ''Demosthenes'' (Rehdantz ed., 1893), ''

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'' (1896), '' Lycurgus'', ''

Leocrates Leocrates ( grc, Λεωκράτης), son of Stroebus ( grc, Στροίβος), was a leading Athenian general of the First Peloponnesian War. He led the Athenian forces that conquered the island of Aegina, traditionally a naval rival of Athens. In ...

'' (1902); ''Die Rhythmen der attischen Kunstprosa'' (1901); ''Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa'' (1905). With

Bernhard Gerth Friedrich Bernhard Gerth (5 April 1844, Dresden – 1 February 1911, Leipzig) was a German educator and classical philologist. In 1868 he received his PhD from the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on the dialects of Greek tragedy, titl ...

, he published an enlarged edition of Kühner's Greek grammar, ''Ausführliche grammatik der griechischen sprache'' (1890–1904, four volumes).Ausführliche grammatik der griechischen sprache
OCLC WorldCat Title Among his other works are editions of Eudoxus of Cnidus (1887), the ''Ἀθηναίων 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'' and ''Paläographie, Buchwesen, und Handschriftenkunde'' (vol. i. of Müller's ''Handbuch der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft'', 1891); ''Über die Aussprache des Griechischen'' (1888; Eng. trans. by W. J. Purton, 1890); ''Die Interpolationen in der Odyssee'' (1904); contributions to Collitz's ''Sammlung der griechischen Dialektinschriften''; editions of the texts of certain portions of the

New Testament The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Chri ...

(

Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christian message (" the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words a ...

s and

Acts The Acts of the Apostles ( grc-koi, Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; la, Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message ...

). His last work was an edition of the '' Choephori'' (1906). See notices in the ''Academy,'' 16 March 1907 ( JP Mahaffy); ''Classical Review,'' May 1907 ( JE Sandys), which contains also a review of ''Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa''.

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