Gottfried Hermann Hermann Gottfried Theodor Fritzsche
Gottfried Hermann's Opuscula (1827 1877) collects in eight volumes the shorter writings of this central figure of nineteenth-century classical philology. Best known for his work on Greek metrics and his editions of Aeschylus, Euripides and others, Hermann (1772 1848) drew on Kantian phenomenology as well as his own formidable understanding of ancient grammars to advance a compelling program of classical scholarship that took language itself as the primary witness to the distant past. Hermann's grammar-based scholarship drew criticism, but established him as foundational to modern philology....
Gottfried Hermann's Opuscula (1827 1877) collects in eight volumes the shorter writings of this central figure of nineteenth-century classical philolo...
