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Karl Lehrs

Karl Lehrs (June 2, 1802 - June 9, 1878), German classical scholar, was born at Königsberg.

He was of Jewish extraction, but in 1822 he embraced Christianity. In 1845 he was appointed professor of ancient Greek philology in Königsberg University, which post he held till his death.

His most important works are:

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; comparative mythology and the symbolical interpretation of myths he regarded as a species of sacrilege.

See the exhaustive article by L Friedländer in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xviii.; F Rammer in Conrad Bursian's Jahresbericht (1879); A Jung, Zur Erinnerung an Karl Lehrs (progr. Meseritz, 1880); A Ludwich edited Lehr's select correspondence (1894) and his Kleine Schriften (1902).

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