German classical scholar, born at Obernkirchen in Schaumburg on the 3rd of July 1826. He studied at Marburg and Tübingen, and was professor at Breslau (1858–1862) and Moscow (1875–1879). He subsequently lived at Bückeburg, and died at Stadthagen in Schaumburg-Lippe on the 10th of July 1892. Westphal was a man of varied attainments, but his chief claim to remembrance rests upon his contributions on Greek music and metre. His chief works are the following Griechische Metrik (3rd ed., 1885–1889); System der antiken Rhythmik (1865), Hephaestion’s De metris enchiridion (1866); Aristoxenus of Tarentum (translation and commentary, 1883–1893, vol. ii. being edited after his death by F. Saran); Die Musik des griechischen Altertums (1883); Allgemeine Metrik der indogermanischen und semitischen Völker (1892). He made translations of Catullus (1870) and of Aristophanes’s Acharnians (1889), in which he successfully reproduced the Dorisms in Plattdeutsch.
