Background
Karl Lehrs was born at Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) on June 2, 1802.
university professor classical philologist
Karl Lehrs was born at Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) on June 2, 1802.
In 1845 Karl Ludwig Lehrs was appointed professor of ancient Greek philology at Königsberg University, a post he held until his death. His most important works are:
De Aristarchi Studiis Homericis (1833), which laid a new foundation for Homeric exegesis (on the Aristarchean lines of explaining Homer from the text itself) and textual criticism. Quaestiones Epicae (1837).
De Asclepiade Myrleano (1845).
Herodiani Scripta Tria emendatiora. Accedunt Analecta (1848).
Populäre Aufsätze aus dem Altertum (1856, Second much enlarged edition, 1875), his best known work. Horatius Flaccus (1869), in which, on aesthetic grounds, he rejected many of the odes as spurious.
Die Pindarscholien (1873).
Lehrs was a man of decided opinions. His enthusiasm for everything Greek caused him to insist on the undivided authorship of the Iliad. Comparative mythology and the symbolical interpretation of myths he regarded as a species of sacrilege.
Göttingen Academy of Sciences. Russian Academy of Sciences.
Lehrs was a man of very decided opinions, one of the most masculine of German scholars his enthusiasm for everything Greek led him to adhere firmly to the undivided authorship of the Iliad.