Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens
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Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens (6 June 1809, Helmstedt – 25 September 1881, Hanover) was a German philologist.
He was born in Helmstedt. After studying at the University of Göttingen (1826-1829) under Otfried Müller and Georg Ludolf Dissen, and holding several educational appointments, in 1849 he succeeded GF Grotefend, director of the Lyceum at Hanover, a post which he filled with great success for thirty years.
His most important work is De Graecae Linguae Dialectis (1839-1843), which, although unfortunately incomplete, dealing only with Aeolic and Doric, and in some respects superseded by modern research, became a standard treatise on the subject. He also published Bucolicorum Graecorum Reliquiae (1855-1859); studies on the dialects of Homer and the Greek lyrists; on Aeschylus; and some excellent school textbooks. A volume of his minor works (ed. Haberlin) was published in 1891, which also contains a complete list of his writings.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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