Friedrich Blass was a German

Germans

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 classical scholar.

After studying at Göttingen and Bonn

University of Bonn

The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

 from 1860 to 1863, he lectured at several gymnasia

Gymnasium (school)

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 and at the University of Königsberg

University of Königsberg

The University of Königsberg was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as second Protestant academy by Duke Albert of Prussia, and was commonly known as the Albertina....

. In 1876 he was appointed extraordinary professor of classical philology

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 at Kiel

University of Kiel

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, and ordinary professor in 1881. In 1892 he accepted a professorship at Halle

University of Halle-Wittenberg

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, where he later died.

He frequently visited England, and was intimately acquainted with leading British scholars. He received an honorary degree from Dublin University

University of Dublin

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 in 1892, and his readiness to place the results of his labours at the disposal of others, together with the courtesy and kindliness of his disposition, won the respect of all who knew him.

Blass is chiefly known for his works in connection with the study of Greek oratory: Die griechische Beredsamkeit von Alexander bis auf Augustus (1865); Die attische Beredsamkeit (1868–1880; 2nd ed., 1887–1898), his greatest work; editions for the Teubner

Bibliotheca Teubneriana

The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, or Teubner editions of Greek and Latin texts, comprise the most thorough modern collection ever published of ancient Greco-Roman literature...

 series 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...

(1880), Antiphon

Antiphon (person)

Antiphon the Sophist lived in Athens probably in the last two decades of the 5th century BC. There is an ongoing controversy over whether he is one and the same with Antiphon of the Athenian deme Rhamnus in Attica , the earliest of the ten Attic orators...

(1881), Hypereides

Hypereides

Hypereides or Hyperides was a logographer in Ancient Greece...

(1881, 1894), Demosthenes

Demosthenes

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(Dindorf

Karl Wilhelm Dindorf

Karl Wilhelm Dindorf , German classical scholar, was born at Leipzig....

's ed., 1885), Isocrates

Isocrates

Isocrates , an ancient Greek rhetorician, was one of the ten Attic orators. In his time, he was probably the most influential rhetorician in Greece and made many contributions to rhetoric and education through his teaching and written works....

(1886), Dinarchus

Dinarchus

Dinarchus or Dinarch was a logographer in Ancient Greece. He was the last of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC.A son of Sostratus , Dinarchus settled at Athens early in life, and...

(1888), Demosthenes (Rehdantz ed., 1893), Aeschines

Aeschines

Aeschines was a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators.-Life:Although it is known he was born in Athens, the records regarding his parentage and early life are conflicting; but it seems probable that his parents, though poor, were respectable. Aeschines' father was Atrometus, an...

(1896), Lycurgus

Lycurgus of Athens

Lycurgus 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.Lycurgus was born at Athens about 396 BC, and was the son of Lycophron, who belonged...

, Leocrates (1902); Die Rhythmen der attischen Kunstprosa (1901); Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa (1905). He published an enlarged edition of Kuhner

Raphael Kuhner

Raphael Kühner was a German classical scholar. He was born at Gotha, educated at Göttingen, and from 1824 to 1863 taught in the Hanover Lyceum. He published an edition of the Tusculanae Disputationes of Cicero . His large Greek Grammar was translated by William Edward Jelf...

's Greek Grammar (1890–1904).

Among his other works are editions of Eudoxus of Cnidus

Eudoxus of Cnidus

Eudoxus of Cnidus was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar and student of Plato. Since all his own works are lost, our knowledge of him is obtained from secondary sources, such as Aratus's poem on astronomy...

 (1887), the Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία (4th ed., 1903), a work of great importance, and Bacchylides (3rd. ed., 1904); Grammatik des neutestamentlichen Griechisch (1902; Eng. trans. by H St John Thackeray, 1905); Hermeneuisik und Kritik and Paläographie, Buchwesen, und Handschriftenkunde (vol. i. of Müller's Handbuch der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, 1891); Über die Aussprache des Griechischen (1888; Eng. trans. by W. J. Purton, 1890); Die Interpolationen in der Odyssee (1904); contributions to Collitz

Hermann Collitz

Hermann Collitz, Ph. D. was an eminent German historical linguist and Indo-Europeanist, who spent much of his career in the United States...

's Sammlung der griechischen Dialektinschriften; editions of the texts of certain portions of the New Testament

New Testament

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 (Gospel

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s and Acts

Acts of the Apostles

The Acts of the Apostles , usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age...

). His last work was an edition of the Choephori (1906).

See notices in the Academy, 16 March 1907 (JP Mahaffy

John Pentland Mahaffy

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); Classical Review, May 1907 (JE Sandys

John Edwin Sandys

Sir John Edwin Sandys FBA , was a classical scholar.He was born at Leicester on 19 May 1844, a son of the Reverend Timothy Sandys of the Church Missionary Society and Rebecca . Living at first in India, he returned to England at the age of eleven, and was educated at the Church Missionary Society...

), which contains also a review of Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa.