Wilhelm von Christ

Wilhelm von Christ (2 August 1831 – 1906), German classical scholar, was born in Geisenheim in Hesse-Nassau.

From 1854 till 1860 he taught in the Maximiliansgymnasium at Munich, and in 1861 was appointed professor of classical philology in the university.

His most important works are:

• Geschichte der griechischen Literatur (5th ed., 1908 f.), a history of Greek literature down to the time of Justinian, one of the best works on the subject
• Metrik der Griechen und Römer (1879)
• editions of Pindar (1887)
• edition of the Poetika of Aristotle (1878)
• edition of the Metaphysica of Aristotle (1895)
• Iliad (1884)

His contributions to the Sitzungsberichte und Abhandlungen of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences are particularly valuable.

See Otto Crusius, Gedächtnisrede (Munich, 1907). After Wilhelm von Christ died, his Literatur was revised by Wilhelm Schmid.