Karl Lehrs

Karl Ludwig Lehrs (January 14, 1802 – June 9, 1878), was a German classical scholar.

Born at Königsberg, he was Jewish, but in 1822 he converted to Christianity. In 1845 he was appointed professor of ancient Greek philology at Königsberg University, a post he held until his death.

Work
His most important works are: Lehrs was a man of decided opinions; his enthusiasm for everything Greek caused him to insist on the undivided authorship of the Iliad; comparative mythology and the symbolical interpretation of myths he regarded as a species of sacrilege.
 * De Aristarchi Studiis Homericis (1833), which laid a new foundation for Homeric exegesis (on the Aristarchean lines of explaining Homer from the text itself) and textual criticism.
 * Quaestiones Epicae (1837).
 * De Asclepiade Myrleano (1845).
 * Herodiani Scripta Tria emendatiora. Accedunt Analecta (1848).
 * Populäre Aufsätze aus dem Altertum (1856, Second much enlarged edition, 1875), his best known work.
 * Horatius Flaccus (1869), in which, on aesthetic grounds, he rejected many of the odes as spurious.
 * Die Pindarscholien (1873).