GOTTLING, CARL WILHELM German classical scholar, was born at Jena, where he was professor from 1822 till his death. In his early years Gottling devoted himself to German literature and published two works on the Nibelungen ; fiber das Geschichtliche im Nibelungenliede (1814) and Nibe lungen and Gibelinen (1817) . The greater part of his life, how ever, was devoted to the study of classical literature. The con tents of his Gesammelte Abhandlungen aus dean klassisc/ien Altertum (1851-63) and Opuscula Academica (published in 1869 after his death) show the varied nature of his studies.
See memoirs by C. Nipperdey, his colleague at Jena (1869), and G. Lothholz (Stargard, 1876).