German philologist, a pupil of Heyne; born on the 17th of December 1784; died on the 21st of September 1837; became professor at Göttingen in 1813; was deeply interested in the philosophy of Socrates and Plato, and at a later period devoted himself to classical exegesis and the development of a theory of the laws of style in poetry and speech. He published editions of Pindar (1830) and Tibullus (1835).
