Ernst Christian Walz

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Ernst Christian Walz (February 28, 1802 – April 5, 1857) was a German classical philologist and archaeologist born in Münklingen, in present-day Baden-Württemberg.

He was a student and later a teacher at Tübinger Stift in Tübingen. In 1832 he became an associate professor, and in 1836 a full professor of classical philology at the University of Tübingen as well as director of the archaeological collection of the Philological Seminar.

Walz made several contributions in the field of classical Greek philology, being remembered for edition of a series of ancient Greek rhetorical works known as Rhetores Graeci (1832-36, nine volumes). After the death of August Pauly in 1845, Walz along with encyclopedist Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel (1820-1858), took over publication of the Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, of which he was also an author of various encyclopaedic archaeological and mythological subjects.

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Name	Walz, Ernst Christian
Alternative names
Short description	German classical philologist
Date of birth	February 28, 1802
Place of birth	Münklingen
Date of death	April 5, 1857
Place of death	Tübingen

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