HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF Ger man classical scholar, was born at Plauen in Saxony on Feb. 15, 1786, and died at Jena, where he had held a professorship, on March 14, 185i. His most famous work is his (unfinished) edition of the treatise of Horatius Tursellinus (Orazio Torsellino, on the Latin particles (Tursellinus, seu de particulis Latinis commentarii, 1829-45). Like his treatise on Latin style (Lehrbuch des lateinischen Stils, 3rd ed. by H. L. Schmitt, 188o), it is too abstruse for the ordinary student. In his Asthetik der Tonkunst he was the first to introduce the subject of musical aesthetics.
The first part of the last-named work has been translated into English by W. E. Lawson (Aesthetics of Musical Art, or The Beautiful in Music, 188o), and B. Sears's Classical Studies (1849) contains a "History of the Origin and Progress of the Latin Language," abridged from Hand's work on the subject. There is a memoir of his life and work by G. Queck (Jena, 1852).