Richard Foerster
German classical philologist, archaeologist and art historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Foerster was a German classical scholar. He is best known for his extensive research on Greek rhetoric of Late antiquity and for his critical edition of Libanius' works. Biography Though born and raised in Görlitz, Foerster never saw himself a Lusatian and felt the strongest allegiance to Silesia, where he studied since winter term 1861 after a semester at Jena. In Breslau he dropped theology and concentrated on classics in a comprehensive way. Apart from Greek and Roman literature he studied metrics under Rudolf Westphal, archaeology under August Rossbach, Sanskrit under Adolf Friedrich Stenzler. His doctoral thesis was inspired by Friedrich Haase and dealt with a phaenomenon in Greek grammar called attractio casus.
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