August Rossbach (26 August 1823 – 23 July 1898) was a German classical philologist and

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

. He is known for his investigations of ancient Greek metrics, defined as a discipline that studies the patterns and arrangements of

syllables A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered the phonological "bu ...

and words that characterize Greek poetry. Born in

Schmalkalden Schmalkalden () is a town in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district, in the southwest of the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is on the southern slope of the Thuringian Forest at the Schmalkalde river, a tributary to the Werra. , the town had a popula ...

, he received his education at the Universities of

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

and

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximate ...

, receiving his habilitation in 1852. After becoming an associate professor at the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Wü ...

, he relocated to Breslau in 1856, where he was appointed a professor of

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...

and archaeology. With

Rudolf Westphal Rudolf Westphal (3 July 182610 July 1892) was a German classical scholar. Life Westphal was born at Obernkirchen in Schaumburg. He studied at Marburg and Tübingen, and was professor at Breslau (1858–1862) and Moscow (1875–1879). He subse ...

(1826–1892), he collaborated on ''Metrik der griechischen Dramatiker und Lyriker'' (Metrics of the Greek dramatist and poet, 1854) as well as ''Theorie der musischen Kunste der Hellene'' (Theory of Performing Arts of the

Hellenes The Greeks or Hellenes (; el, Έλληνες, ''Éllines'' ) are an ethnic group and nation indigenous to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions, namely Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, and, to a lesser extent, other ...

, published in 4 tomes 1885–1889). He was the author of writings on

Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus (; 84 - 54 BCE), often referred to simply as Catullus (, ), was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, focusing on personal life rather than classical heroes. His s ...

(1854; second edition 1860) and

Tibullus Albius Tibullus ( BC19 BC) was a Latin poet and writer of elegies. His first and second books of poetry are extant; many other texts attributed to him are of questionable origins. Little is known about the life of Tibullus. There are only a fe ...

(1854), and published a work on Roman marriage, ''"Römisches Hochzeits- und Ehedenkmäler'' (1871).The New international encyclopædia, Volume 15 edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rossbach, August Archaeologists from Thuringia German classical philologists Academic staff of the University of Breslau University of Marburg alumni Leipzig University alumni Academic staff of the University of Tübingen People from Schmalkalden 1823 births 1898 deaths