Adolf Kirchhoff
Johann Wilhelm Adolf Kirchhoff was a German classical scholar and epigraphist.
Biography
The son of historical painter Johann Jakob Kirchhoff, he was born in Berlin, and educated there. He then taught in various colleges until, in 1865, he was appointed professor of classical philology at the University of Berlin, where he remained for the rest of his life. Kirchhoff's scientific studies covered a wide range in linguistics, antiquities, and Greek epigraphy. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1888.Writings
- Die Homerische Odyssee, putting forward an entirely new theory as to the composition of the Odyssey
- edition of Plotinus
- edition of Euripides, the first critical edition based on a careful collation of all the manuscripts
- edition of Aeschylus
- Hesiod
- Xenophon, Respublica Atheniensium
- Über die Entstehungszeit des Herodotischen Geschichtswerkes
- Thukydides und sein Urkundenmaterial.
- Die Umbrischen Sprachdenkmäler
- Das Stadtrecht von Bantia, on the tablet discovered in 1790 at Oppido near Banzi, containing a plebiscite relating to the municipal affairs of the ancient Bantia
- Das Gotische Runenalphabet
- Die Fränkischen Runen
- Studien zur Geschichte des Griechischen Alphabets.