Editing Friedrich Blass

{{Short description|German classical scholar (1843–1907)}}
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[[Image:Friedrich Blass - Imagines philologorum.jpg|thumb|right|Friedrich Blass]]
'''Friedrich Blass''' (22 January 1843, [[Osnabrück]]{{snd}}5 March 1907, [[Halle (Saale)|Halle]]) was a [[Germans|German]] classical scholar.

==Biography==
After studying at [[University of Göttingen|Göttingen]] and [[University of Bonn|Bonn]] from 1860 to 1863, Blass lectured at several [[gymnasium (school)|gymnasia]] and at the [[University of Königsberg]]. In 1876 he was appointed extraordinary professor of classical [[philology]] at [[University of Kiel|Kiel]], and ordinary professor in 1881. In 1892 he accepted a professorship at [[University of Halle-Wittenberg|Halle]], where he later died.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Blass, Friedrich |volume=4 |page=44}}</ref>

He frequently visited England, and was intimately acquainted with leading British scholars. He received an honorary degree from [[University of Dublin|Dublin University]] 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.<ref name="EB1911"/>

Blass is chiefly known for his works in connection with the study of [[Eloquence|Greek oratory]]: ''Die Attische Beredsamkeit von Alexander bis auf Augustus'' (1865); ''Die attische Beredsamkeit'' (1868–1880; 2nd ed., 1887–1898), his greatest work; editions for the [[Bibliotheca Teubneriana|Teubner]] series of ''[[Andocides]]'' (1880), ''[[Antiphon (person)|Antiphon]]'' (1871, 2nd ed. 1881–1908, also including the surviving orations of [[Gorgias]], [[Antisthenes]], and [[Alcidamas]]),<ref>[https://archive.org/details/antiphontisorati00antiuoft/page/n3/mode/2up ''Antiphontis Orationes et fragmenta, adiunctis Gorgiae, Antisthenis, Alcidamantis declamationibus''] (2nd ed.), ed. Friedrich Blass (1892), B. G. Teubner.</ref> ''[[Hypereides]]'' (1881, 1894), ''[[Demosthenes]]'' ([[Karl Wilhelm Dindorf|Dindorf]]'s ed., 1885), ''[[Isocrates]]'' (1886), ''[[Dinarchus]]'' (1888), ''Demosthenes'' (Rehdantz ed., 1893), ''[[Aeschines]]'' (1896), ''[[Lycurgus of Athens|Lycurgus]]'', ''[[Leocrates]]'' (1902); ''Die Rhythmen der attischen Kunstprosa'' (1901); ''Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa'' (1905).<ref name="EB1911"/> With [[Bernhard Gerth]], he published an enlarged edition of [[Raphael Kühner|Kühner]]'s Greek grammar, ''Ausführliche grammatik der griechischen sprache'' (1890–1904, four volumes).<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3250309 Ausführliche grammatik der griechischen sprache] OCLC WorldCat Title</ref>

Among his other works are editions of [[Eudoxus of Cnidus]] (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); ''Hermeneutik 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 [[Hermann Collitz|Collitz]]'s ''Sammlung der griechischen Dialektinschriften''; editions of the texts of certain portions of the [[New Testament]] ([[Gospel]]s and [[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]]). His last work was an edition of the ''[[Oresteia#The Libation Bearers|Choephori]]'' (1906).<ref name="EB1911"/>

See notices in the ''Academy,'' 16 March 1907 ([[John Pentland Mahaffy|JP Mahaffy]]); ''Classical Review,'' May 1907 ([[John Edwin Sandys|JE Sandys]]), which contains also a review of ''Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa''.<ref name="EB1911"/>

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==External links==
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