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WESTPHAL, RUDOLF (18261892)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 556 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WESTPHAL, RUDOLF (18261892) , German classical scholar, was born at Obernkirchen in Schaumburg on the 3rd of July 1826. He studied at Marburg and
Tubingen
 , and was professor at
Breslau
  (18581862) and Moscow (1875-1879). He subsequently lived at Biickeburg, and died at Stadthagen in Schaum burg-Lippe on the loth 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., 18851889);
System
  der antiken Rhythmik (1865); Hephaestion's De metris enchiridion (1866);
Aristoxenus
  of Tarentum (
translation
  and commentary, 18831893, 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 (187o) and of Aristophanes' Acharnians (1889), in which he successfully reproduced the Dorisms in Plattdeutsch.


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