BLASS

blass, friedrich (1843-1907), german classical scholar, was born on the 22nd of january 1843 at osnabruck. after studying at gottingen and bonn from 1860 to 1863, he lectured at several gymnasia and at the university of konigsberg. in 1876 he was appointed extraordinary professor of classical philology at kiel, and ordinary professor in 1881. in 1892 he accepted a professorship at halle, where he died on the 5th of march 1907. he frequently visited england, and was intimately acquainted with leading british scholars. he received an honorary degree from dublin university in 1892, and his readiness to place the results of his labours at the disposal of others, together with the courtesy and kindliness of his disposition, won the respect of all who knew him. blass is chiefly known for his works in connexion with the study of greek oratory: _die griechische beredsamkeit von alexander bis auf augustus_ (1865); _die attische beredsamkeit_ (1868-1880; 2nd ed., 1887-1898), his greatest work; editions for the teubner series of andocides (1880), antiphon (1881), hypereides (1881, 1894), demosthenes (dindorf's ed., 1885), isocrates (1886), dinarchus (1888), demosthenes (rehdantz' ed., 1893), aeschines (1896), lycurgus, _leocrates_ (1902); _die rhythmen der attischen kunstprosa_ (1901); _die rhythmen der asianischen und romischen kunstprosa_ (1905). among his other works are editions of eudoxus of cnidus (1887), the [greek: athaenaion politeia] (4th ed., 1903), a work of great importance, and bacchylides (3rd. ed., 1904); _grammatik des neutestamentlichen griechisch_ (1902; eng. trans, by h. st john thackeray, 1905); _hermeneutik und kritik and palaographie, buchwesen, und handschriftenkunde_ (vol. i. of muller's _handbuch der klassischen altertumswissenschaft_, 1891); _uber die aussprache des griechischen_ (1888; eng. trans, by w.j. purton, 1890); _die interpolationen in der odyssee_ (1904); contributions to collitz's _sammlung der griechischen dialektinschriften_; editions of the texts of certain portions of the new testament (gospels and _acts_). his last work was an edition of the _choephori_ (1906). see notices in the _academy_, march 16, 1907 (j.p. mahaffy); _classical review_, may 1907 (j.e. sandys), which contains also a review of _die rhythmen der asianischen und romischen kunstprosa_.