Leopold Cohn (author)

Leopold Cohn was a German author and philologist.
He received his education at the gymnasium at Culm, West Prussia, and at the University of Breslau, whence he graduated as doctor of philosophy in 1878.
In 1884, he became privatdozent at the Breslau University.
In 1889, he was appointed librarian, and in 1897 he received the title of professor.

Works

On Greek literature:

De Aristophane Byzantio et Suetonio Tranquillo Eustathi Auctoribus, Leipzig, 1881
Untersuchungen über die Quellen der Plato-Scholien, Leipzig, 1884
De Heraclide Milesio Grammatico, Berlin, 1884
Zu den Paroemiographen, Breslau, 1887
Zur Handschriftlichen Ueberlieferung, Kritik und Quellenkunde der Paroemiographen, Leipzig, 1892.

On Jewish literature:

Philonis Alexandrini Libellus de Opificio Mundi, Breslau, 1889
Philonis Alexandrini Opera quæ Supersunt, vol. i, Berlin, 1896; vol. ii, ib. 1897; vol. iii, ib. 1898; vol. iv, ib. 1902.

He contributed to The Jewish Quarterly Review "The Latest Researches on Philo of Alexandria," and "An Apocryphal Work Ascribed to Philo of Alexandria"; to the "Neue Jahrbücher für Classisches Altertum" "Philo von Alexandria"; and to "Philologus" "Einteilung und Chronologie der Schriften Philos."
Cohn was the author of the essay on "Griechische Lexikographie," in Handbuch der Klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, 3d ed., ii, part i, Munich, 1900. He also contributed articles on Greek grammarians to Pauly-Wissowa's Real-Encyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft.