JAHN, OTTO (18131869)

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JAHN, OTTO (18131869) , German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music, was born at Kiel on the 16th of June 1813. After the completion of his university studies at Kiel,

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

and Berlin, he travelled for three years in France and Italy; in 1839 he became privatdocent at Kiel, and in 1842 professor-extraordinary of archaeology and philology at Greifswald (

ordinary

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

professor 1845). In 1847 he accepted the chair of archaeology at

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, of which he was deprived in 1851 for having.taken part in the political movements of 1848--1849. In 1855 he was appointed professor of the science of antiquity, and director of the academical art museum at

Bonn

BONN

, and in 1867 he was called to succeed E. Gerhard at Berlin. He died at Gottingen, on the 9th of. September 1869.
The following are the most important of his works: 1. Archaeological: Palamedes (1836); Telephos u. Troilos (1841); Die Gemalde des Polygnot (1841) ;

Pentheus

PENTHEUS

u. die Manaden (1841) ; Paris u. Oinone (1844); Die hellenische' Kunst (1846) ; Peitho, die Gottin der Uberredung (1847); Iber einige Darstellungen des Paris-Urteils (1849) ; Die Ficoronische Cista (1852) ; Pausaniae descriptio arcis

Athenaeum

ATHENAEUM

(3rd ed., 1901); Darstellungen griechischer Dichter auf Vasenbildern (1861). 2. Philological:

Critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

editions of Juvena , Persius and Sulpicla (3rd ed. by F. Biicheler, 1893) ; Censorinus
r5) ; Florus (1852) ; Cicero's Brutus (4th ed., 1877) ; and Orator d ed., 186) ; the Periochae of Livy (1853) ; the Psyche et Cupido of

Apuleius

APULEIUS, LUCIUS

(3rd ed., 1884; 5th ed., 1905) ; Longinus (1867; 3rd ed. by J. Vahlen, 1905). 3. Biographical and aesthetic: Veber Mendelssohn's Paulus (1842); Biographie Mozarts, a

work

WORK

of extraordinary labour, and of

great

GREAT

importance for the history of music (3rd ed. by H. Disters, 18891891 ; Eng. trans. by P. D. Townsend,1891) ; Ludwig Uhland (1863) ; Gesammelte Aufsatze fiber Musik (1866) ; Biographische Aufsdtze (1866). His Griechische Bilderchroniken was published after his death, by his nephew A. Michaelis, who has written an
exhaustive biography in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xiii. ; see also J. Vahlen, Otto Jahn (187o) ; C. Bursian, Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland.

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