Thoukudidēs. Thucydidis historia belli Peloponnesiaci, cum nova translatione latina. F. Haasi. Accedunt Marcellini Vita, scholia graeca emendatius expressa, et indices nominum et rerum

Friedrich Haase (1808-1867), classical philologist. Haase studied classical philology at Halle under Friedrich Reisig, continued his studies at Greifswald with Georg Friedrich Schomann, and completed them in Berlin under August Boeckh and Karl Lachmann. After passing the state examination in 1831, he taught in Berlin and at Schulpforta, but his early academic career was interrupted by prosecution connected with his participation in the Burschenschaft movement, which resulted in imprisonment and temporary exclusion from school service. Following his release, Haase resumed scholarly work and travelled to Paris to study manuscripts of the Greek and Roman military writers. In 1840 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Breslau, becoming full professor in 1846. He also served as rector of the university in 1859. Haase's scholarship combined grammatical, textual, and historical approaches to classical philology. His early edition of Xenophon's De republica Lacedaemoniorum (1833) established his reputation, and he subsequently published studies on Greek and Latin grammar, textual criticism, and the history of philology. Besides Thucydides, he worked on several classical authors, including Xenophon, Velleius Paterculus, Seneca, and Tacitus. DB