Otto Jahn

Otto Jahn (June 16, 1813–September 9, 1869), was a German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music.

Most important works

• Archaeological:
• Palamedes (1836)
• Telephos u. Troilos (1841)
• Die Gemälde des Polygnot (1841)
• Pentheus u. die Mänaden (1841)
• Paris u. Oinone (1844)
• Die hellenische Kunst (1846)
• Peitho, die Göttin der Überredung (1847)
• Über einige Darstellungen des Paris-Urteils (1849)
• Die Ficoronische Cista (1852)
• Pausaniae descriptio arcis Athenarum (3rd ed., 1901)
• Darstellungen griechischer Dichter auf Vasenbildern (1861)
• Philological:
• Critical editions of Juvenal, Persius and Sulpicia (3rd ed. by F Bücheler, 1893)
• Censorinus (1845)
• Florus (1852)
• Cicero's Brutus (4th ed., 1877) and Orator (3rd ed., 1869)
• the Periochae of Livy (1853)
• the Psyche et Cupido of Apuleius (3rd ed., 1884; 5th ed., 1905)
• Longinus (1867; edited. by J Vahlen, 1905)
• Biographical and aesthetic:
• Ueber Mendelssohn's Paulus (1842)
• Biographie Mozarts, a work of extraordinary labour, and of great importance for the history of music (3rd ed. by H. Disters, 1889-1891; Eng. trans. by PD Townsend, 1891)
• Ludwig Uhland (1863)
• Gesammelte Aufsatze über Musik (1866)
• Biographische Aufsatze (1866).

His Griechische Bilderchroniken was published after his death, by his nephew A Michaelis, who has written an exhaustive biography in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xiii.; see also J Vahlen, Otto Jahn (1870); C Bursian, Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland.

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