Otto Jahn (; 16 June 1813, in Kiel – 9 September 1869, in Göttingen), was a German

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 ...

, philologist, and writer on art and music.

Biography

After the completion of his university studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, the University of Leipzig and Humboldt University, Berlin, he traveled for three years in France and Italy. In Rome, he was greatly influenced by the work of August Emil Braun (1809–1856).Dictionary of Art Historians - Otto Jahn
@ A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars, Museum Professionals and Academic Historians of Art In 1839 he became ''

privatdozent ''Privatdozent'' (for men) or ''Privatdozentin'' (for women), abbreviated PD, P.D. or Priv.-Doz., is an academic title conferred at some European universities, especially in German-speaking countries, to someone who holds certain formal qualific ...

'' at Kiel, and in 1842 professor-extraordinary of archaeology and philology at the University of Greifswald (ordinary professor 1845). In 1847 he accepted the chair of archaeology at Leipzig, however, he along with Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) and Moritz Haupt (1808–1874) were dismissed from the university in 1851 for having taken part in the political movements of 1848-1849. In 1855 he was appointed professor of the science of antiquity, and director of the academic art museum at Bonn. While here, he turned down an offer as successor to

Eduard Gerhard Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard (29 November 1795 – 12 May 1867) was a German archaeologist. He was co-founder and secretary of the first international archaeological society. Biography Gerhard was born at Posen, and was educated at Bresla ...

(1795–1867) at Berlin. His biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart appeared in 1856, the centenary of Mozart's birth. From 1852 Jahn collected as many Mozart manuscripts and letters as he could and copied many others. On learning of the Mozart catalogue being written by Köchel he turned this material over to him. Jahn's work is admired for its scholarly approach (at the time, novel in Mozart biography); and in versions revised by

Hermann Abert Hermann Abert (; 25 March 1871 – 13 August 1927) was a German historian of music. Life Abert was born in Stuttgart, the son of Johann Josef Abert (1832–1915), the ''Hofkapellmeister'' of that city. From 1890 to 1896 he studied classical ...

and Cliff Eisen, continues in use today.W. A. Mozart
Yale University Press, Nov 30, 2007 - Hermann Abert Among Jahn's notable students was the classical archaeologist and philologist

Hugo Blümner Hugo Blümner (9 August 1844, in Berlin – 1 January 1919, in Zürich) was a German classical archaeologist and philologist. Biography Blümner studied with Otto Jahn in Bonn and wrote his doctoral thesis 1866 in Berlin on Lucian.''De locis L ...

List of most important works

*Archaeological: **''Palamedes'' (1836) **''Telephos und Troilos'' (1841) **''Die Gemälde des Polygnot'' (1841) **''Pentheus und die Mänaden'' (1841) **''Paris und Oinone'' (1844) **''Die hellenische Kunst'' (1846) **''Peitho, die Göttin der Überredung'' (1847) **''Über einige Darstellungen des Paris-Urteils'' (1849) **''Die Ficoronische Cista'' (1852) **''Pausaniae descriptio arcis Athenarum'' (3rd ed., 1901) **''Darstellungen griechischer Dichter auf Vasenbildern'' (1861) *Philological: **Critical editions of Juvenal, Persius and Sulpicia (3rd ed. by F. Bücheler, 1893) ** Censorinus (1845) ** Florus (1852) ** Cicero's ''Brutus'' (4th ed., 1877) and ''Orator'' (3rd ed., 1869) **the ''Periochae'' of Livy (1853) **the ''Psyche et Cupido'' of Apuleius (3rd ed., 1884; 5th ed., 1905) ** Longinus (1867; edited. by J. Vahlen, 1905) *Biographical and aesthetic: **''Ueber Mendelssohn's Paulus'' (1842) **''Biographie Mozarts''. The 11th edition of '' Encyclopædia Britannica'' called this "a work of extraordinary labour, and of great importance for the history of music" (3rd ed. by Hermann Deiters, 1889–1891; Eng. trans. by P. D. Townsend, 1891) **'' Ludwig Uhland'' (1863) **''Gesammelte Aufsätze über Musik'' (1866) **''Biographische Aufsätze'' (1866). His ''Griechische Bilderchroniken'' was published after his death, by his nephew Adolf Michaelis, who has written an exhaustive biography in ''

Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB, german: Universal German Biography) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language. It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Aca ...

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