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Adolf Kirchhoff
Johann Wilhelm Adolf Kirchhoff (6 January 1826 – 26 February
Johann Wilhelm Adolf
1908) was a German classical scholar and epigraphist.
Kirchhoff

Biography
The son of historical painter Johann Jakob Kirchhoff, he was born in
Berlin, and educated there. He then taught in various colleges until, in
1865, he was appointed professor of classical philology at the University of
Berlin, where he remained for the rest of his life. Kirchhoff's scientific
studies covered a wide range in linguistics, antiquities, and Greek
epigraphy. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1888.[1]

Writings
Die Homerische Odyssee (1859), putting forward an entirely new
theory as to the composition of the Odyssey Born January 6, 1826
edition of Plotinus (1856) Berlin, Kingdom of
edition of Euripides (1855 and 1877–1878), the first critical edition Prussia
based on a careful collation of all the manuscripts
edition of Aeschylus (1880) Died February 26, 1908
Hesiod (Works and Days, 1881) (aged 82)
Xenophon, Respublica Atheniensium (On the Athenian Constitution; Berlin, German
3rd ed., 1889) Empire
Über die Entstehungszeit des Herodotischen Geschichtswerkes (2nd
ed., 1878) Scientific career
Thukydides und sein Urkundenmaterial (1895). Fields Classics, Epigraphy
The following works are the result of his epigraphical and palaeographical Institutions University of Berlin
studies:

Die Umbrischen Sprachdenkmäler (1851)

Das Stadtrecht von Bantia (1853), on the tablet discovered in 1790 at Oppido near Banzi, containing a plebiscite
relating to the municipal affairs of the ancient Bantia (the Stadtrecht)
Das Gotische Runenalphabet (1852)
Die Fränkischen Runen (1855)
Studien zur Geschichte des Griechischen Alphabets (4th ed., 1887).
The second part of vol. iv. of the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum (1859, containing the Christian inscriptions) and
vol. i. of the Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum (1873, containing the inscriptions before 403) with supplements thereto
(vol. iv. pts. 13, 1877–1891) are edited by him. From 1860 to 1902, he was in charge of the Inscriptiones Graecae. He
edited Hermes (1866–81).

References
1. "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter K" (http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterK.pdf)
(PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 11 September 2016.

 Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Kirchhoff, Adolf"  (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New
_International_Encyclop%C3%A6dia/Kirchhoff,_Adolf). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd,
Mead.
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 Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Kirchhoff, Johann Wilhelm Adolf"  (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Encycl
opedia_Americana_(1920)/Kirchhoff,_Johann_Wilhelm_Adolf). Encyclopedia Americana.
 Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Kirchhoff, Johann Wilhelm Adolf"  (https://en.wikisource.org/wik
i/The_American_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_(1879)/Kirchhoff,_Johann_Wilhelm_Adolf). The American Cyclopædia.

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