Wilhelm Henzen

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Henzen (January 24, 1816 – January 27, 1887) was a German philologist and epigraphist born in Bremen.

He studied philology at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin, afterwards traveling to Paris and London, where he furthered his education by becoming fluent in French and English. With Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784-1868), he undertook archaeological investigations in Italy and Greece, and in 1842 settled in Rome, where in 1856 he succeeded August Emil Braun (1809-1856) as first secretary of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (German Archaeological Institute). From 1876 he was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.

Henzen was a leading authority on Latin epigraphy. With Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) and Giovanni Battista de Rossi (1822-1894), he was co-editor of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. Also, he provided a supplemental volume to Johann Caspar von Orelli's collection of Latin inscriptions, Inscriptionum latinarum collectio (1856).

References

• Wikisource, Henzen, Wilhelm @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

Authority control WorldCat VIAF: 42632633 LCCN: n85123878 ISNI: 0000 0001 1025 6841 GND: 118710605 SUDOC: 083551255 NLA: 35036161

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Name	Henzen, Wilhelm
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Date of birth	January 24, 1816
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Date of death	January 27, 1887
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