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KIRCHHOFF, JOHANN WILHELM ADOLF (1826-1908)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 827 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KIRCHHOFF, JOHANN WILHELM ADOLF (1826-1908) ,
German
  classical scholar and epigraphist, was born in Berlin on the 6th of January 1826. In 1865 he was appointed professor of classical philology in the university of his native city. He died on the 26th of
February
  1908. He is the author of Die Homerische Odyssee (1859), putting forward an entirely new theory as to the composition of the Odyssey;
editions
  of
Plotinus
  (1856), Euripides (1855 and 1877-1878). Aeschylus (188o),
Hesiod
  (Works and Days, 1889), Xenophon, On the Athenian Constitution (3rd ed., 1889); Uber die Entstehungszeit des Herodotischen Geschichtswerkes (2nd ed., 1878); Thukydides and sein Urkundenmaterial (1895).
The following works are the result of his epigraphical and palaeographical studies: Die Umbrischen Sprachdenkmaler (1851); Das Stadtrecht von Bantia (1853), on the tablet discovered in 1790 at Oppido near Banzi, containing a
plebiscite
  relating to the municipal affairs of the ancient Bantia; Das Gotische Runenalphabet (1852); Die Frankischen Runen (1855) ; Studien zur Geschichte des Griechischen Alphabets (4th ed., 1887). The second
part
  of vol. iv. of the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum (1859, containing the
Christian
 
inscriptions
 ) and vol. i. of the C. I. Atticarum (1873, containing the
inscriptions
  before 403) with supplements thereto (vol. iv. pts. 13, 1877-1891) are edited by him.


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