Justus Hermann Lipsius was a German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 classical scholar, born at Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

, professor

Professor

A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...

 of the university of his native city after 1869. He was editor of Andocides

Andocides

Andocides or Andokides was a logographer in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BCE.He was implicated during the Peloponnesian War in the mutilation of the...

 (1888) and of Demosthenes

Demosthenes

Demosthenes was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by...

, On the Crown (1884), reviser of Meier

Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier

Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier was a German classical scholar, born at Glogau. When 24 years of age he became professor extraordinarius at the University of Greifswald, and in 1824 was made professor ordinarius at Halle, where he remained until his death...

 and Schömann

Georg Friedrich Schömann

Georg Friedrich Schömann , was a German classical scholar.He was born at Stralsund in Pomerania. In 1827 he was appointed professor of ancient literature and eloquence in the University of Greifswald; it was there that he died.Schömann's main interest was in the constitutional and religious...

's Der attische Prozess (two volumes, Berlin, 1883, 1887) and of Schömann's Griechische Altertümer (two volumes, Berlin, 1897, 1901), and author of Attisches Recht und Rechtsverfassung (1905–1912). He wrote numerous philological papers and edited Leipziger Studien zur klassischen Philologie.