Rudolf Westphal (3 July 182610 July 1892) was a German classical scholar.

Life

Westphal was born at

Obernkirchen Obernkirchen () is a town in the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 8 km southwest of Stadthagen, and 15 km east of Minden. Obernkirchen is a small town in the shadows of the Bückeberg, a hil ...

Schaumburg Schaumburg is a district (''Landkreis'') of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (clockwise from the north) the districts of Nienburg, Hanover and Hamelin-Pyrmont, and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (districts of Lippe and Minden-Lübbe ...

. He studied at

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and Tübingen, and was professor at Breslau (1858–1862) and

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(1875–1879). He subsequently lived at Bückeburg, and died at Stadthagen in

Schaumburg-Lippe Schaumburg-Lippe, also Lippe-Schaumburg, was created as a county in 1647, became a principality in 1807, a free state in 1918, and was until 1946 a small state in Germany, located in the present day state of Lower Saxony, with its capital at Bück ...

on 10 July 1892. Westphal devoted his life in translating and interpreting the works of Aristoxenus. He then applied Greek theories of poetic meter to eighteenth- and nineteenth century music. 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 were: *''Griechische Metrik'' (3rd ed., 1885–1889) *''System der antiken Rhythmik'' (1865) *

Hephaestion Hephaestion ( grc, Ἡφαιστίων ''Hephaistíon''; c. 356 BC – October 324 BC), son of Amyntor, was an ancient Macedonian nobleman and a general in the army of Alexander the Great. He was "by far the dearest of all the ...

'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 Gaius Valerius Catullus (; 84 - 54 BCE), often referred to simply as Catullus (, ), was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, focusing on personal life rather than classical heroes. His s ...

(1870) and of

Aristophanes Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme In Ancient Greece, a deme or ( grc, δῆμος, plural: demoi, δημοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states ...

' '' Acharnians'' (1889), in which he successfully reproduced the Dorisms in

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References

1826 births 1892 deaths People from Schaumburg German classical scholars German music theorists 19th-century German musicologists {{Germany-musicologist-stub