Rudolf Westphal
Rudolf Westphal (July 3, 1826 – July 10, 1892), German classical scholar.
He was born at Obernkirchen in Schaumburg.
He studied at Marburg and Tübingen, and was professor at Breslau (1858–1862) and Moscow (1875–1879). He subsequently lived at Bückeburg, and died at Stadthagen in Schaumburg-Lippe on 10 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:
He made translations of Catullus (1870) and of Aristophanes' Acharnians (1889), in which he successfully reproduced the Dorisms in Low German.
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