Johann Christian Felix Baehr
Johann Christian Felix Bähr ( born June 13, 1798 in Darmstadt, † November 29, 1872 in Heidelberg ) was a German classical scholar and director of the University Library of Heidelberg.
Life
Baehr was the son of Johannes Bähr Baden prelates. He studied in 1815 at the University of Heidelberg and was able to successfully complete this study in 1819 with a PhD. 1821 Bähr was A.O. Professor of Classics and two years later full professor in the same discipline.
1832 promoted to the Senior Librarian Bähr and thus to the Director of the University Library of Heidelberg. From this time acted Bähr, along with Georg August Muncke and Friedrich Christoph Schlosser, as editor of the Heidelberg Yearbooks.
When Frederick Creuzer 1845 his offices wondered was summoned Bähr as his successor to lead the philological seminar. 1846 he was appointed a Privy Councillor.
Christian Bahr died at the age of 74 years on 29 November 1872 in Heidelberg.
Reception
As Bähr's main work is considered his extremely detailed "Roman literary history ", whose three volumes he later added a band " Christian writer and historian ." His translations of Herodotus, Ctesias of Cnidus and Plutarch were Bähr's contemporaries (including the comments because of) as exemplary.
Works (selection)
- De Apolline patricio et Minerva primigenia Atheniensium. Heidelberg: Mohr & Winter, 1820 dissertation..
- Plutarch's " Alcibiades ". Heidelberg 1822
- Fragments of Ctesias of Cnidus. Frankfurt 1824
- Philopoemen; Flaminius; Plutarch; Pyrrhus. Leipzig: Hahn, in 1826.
- The Christian- Roman theology. Karlsruhe 1837
- History of Roman literature in the Carolingian era. Karlsruhe 1840
- Herodotus (2nd edition, Leipz. 1855-61 )
- History of Roman literature. Karlsruhe 1868/70 (3 vols )
- The Christian poet and historian of Rome. Karlsruhe 1872 ( Supplement to the previous )