BLASS, FRIEDRICH , German classical scholar, was professor at Kiel 1876-92, and at Halle 1892-1907.
Blass is chiefly known for his works in connection with the study of Greek oratory: Die griechische Beredsamkeit von Alexander bis auf Augustus (1865) ; Die attische Beredsamkeit (1868-80; 2nd ed., 1887 98), his greatest work; editions for the Teubner series of Andocides (1880), Antiphon 0880, Hypereides (1881, 1894) , Demosthenes (Din dorf's ed. 1885) , Isocrates (1886) , Deinarchus (1888) , Demosthenes (Rehdantz's ed., 1893) , Aeschines (1896) , Lycurgus, Leocrates (1902) ; Die Rhythmen der attischen Kunstprosa (19o1) ; Die Rhythmen der asianischen and romischen Kunstprosa (5905). Among his other works are editions of Eudoxus of•Cnidus (1887), the 'AOrwaicw iroXtresa (4th ed., 1903), a work of great importance and Bacchylides (3rd ed., 1904) ; Grammatik des neutestamentlichen Griechisch (1902 ; Eng. trans. by H. St. John Thackeray, 1905) ; Hermeneutik and Kritik and Palaographie, Buchwesen, and Handschriftenkunde (vol. i. of Muller's Handbuch der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, 1891) ; Ober die Aussprache des Griechischen (1888; Eng. trans. by W. J. Purton, 1890) ; Die Interpolationen in der Odyssee (1904) ; contributions to Collitz's Sammlung der griechischen Dialektinschriften; editions of the texts of certain portions of the New Testament (Gospels and Acts) . His last work was an edition of the Choephori 0906). See notices in the Academy, March 16, 1907 (J. P. Mahaffy) ; Classical Review, May 1907 (J. E. Sandys) , which contains also a review of Die Rhythmen der asianischen and romischen Kunstprosa.