Johann Christian Felix Baehr
Johann Christian Felix Baehr was a German philologist.Life
Born at Darmstadt, he studied at the Gymnasium and the University of Heidelberg, where he was appointed professor of classical philology in 1823, chief librarian in 1832, and on the retirement of G. F. Creuzer, became director of the philological seminary. He died at Heidelberg.
His earliest works were editions of Plutarch's Alcibiades, Philopoemen, Flamininus, Pyrrhus, the fragments of Ctesias, and Herodotus. But most important of all were his works on Roman literature and humanistic studies in the Middle Ages: Geschichte der römischen Litteratur, and the supplementary volumes:
- Die christlichen Dichter und Geschichtschreiber Roms
- Die christlich-römische Theologie
- Geschichte der römischen Litteratur im karolingischen Zeitalter.
