Rudolf Westphal German

Germany

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 classical scholar, was born at Obernkirchen

Obernkirchen

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 in Schaumburg

Schaumburg

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He studied at Marburg and Tübingen, and was professor at Breslau (1858-1862) and Moscow (1875-1879). He subsequently lived at Bückeburg, and died at Stadthagen in Schaumburg-Lippe on the 10th of July 1892.

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 are:

• Griechische Metrik (3rd ed., 1885-1889)
• System der antiken Rhythmik (1865)
• Hephaestion
  Hephaestion
  Hephaestion , son of Amyntor, was a Macedonian nobleman and a general in the army of Alexander the Great...
  
  '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

Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Latin poet of the Republican period. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art.-Biography:...

 (1870) and of Aristophanes

Aristophanes

Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete...

' Acharnians

The Acharnians

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(1889), in which he successfully reproduced the Dorisms in Low German

Low German

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