Background
Wilhelm von Christ was born in Geisenheim in Hesse-Nassau on the 2nd of April in 1831.
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linguist classical philologist
Wilhelm von Christ was born in Geisenheim in Hesse-Nassau on the 2nd of April in 1831.
From 1854 till 1860 Wilhelm von Christ taught in the Maximiliansgymnasium at Munich, and in 1861 was appointed professor of classical philology at the University of Munich.
Christ's most important works are his Geschichte der griechischen Literatur, a history of Greek literature down to the time of Justinian, one of the best works on the subject; Metrik der Griechen und Romer (1879); editions of Pindar (1887); of the Poetica (1878) and Metaphysica (1895) of Aristotle; Iliad (1884).
Wilhelm von Christ was a member of the German Archaeological Institute, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople.
