HERMANN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED JAKOB 1848), German classical scholar and philologist, was born at Leipzig on Nov. 28, 1772. He studied at Leipzig university, and spent his life there as lecturer and professor, dying on Dec. 31, 1848. As leader of the school that held linguistic studies to be the sole aim of philology, he was opposed by A. Bockh and Otfried Muller, the representatives of the historico-antiquarian school, which regarded Hermann's view of philology as inade quate and one-sided.
See monographs by O. Jahn (1849) and H. Kochly (1874) ; C. Bursian, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883) ; art. in Allgem. deutsche Biog.; Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol. (1908)