HEYNE, CI1R. GOTTLOB, born at Chemnitz in Saxony in 1729, studied at Leipzig, and distioguished himself early as a classical scholar. The chair of eloquence and poetry in the University of Gottingen haviug become vacant by the death of J. M. Conner, Heyne was appointed to it iu 1763. From that time till his death Heyne was one of the most distinguished members of that learned institution, whose reputation he greatly contributed to uphold both by his lectures and by his publications. The department to which Heyne particularly applied himself was that of classical criticism and the illustration of the writings of the ancients, by showing how they ought to be studied with reference to the manners and character of their respective ages. He published his ideas on these subjects in his notes to the ' Biblio theca ' of Apoliodorus, and afterwards in numerous dissertations inserted in the Transactions of the University of Gottingen.' Ilia disciples M. Hermann, Voss, Manse, and others, have followed in the
same path. Ileyne'a Opuscula Academics; 6 vols. 8vo, Gottingen, 1785.1315, contain many learned and valuable disquisitions on ancient history. Heyno published editions of Homer, Pinder, Diodorus Sicu lus, Epictetus, Virgil, Tibullus, &c., all enriched with ample commen taries. His Antiquarische Aufatze; in 2 vole., are essays on the history of ancient art. As librarian to the University of Gottingen he introduced an excellent method of cataloguing the books of that extensive collection, which under his superintendence iocreased pro digiously, both in number of works and value. Heyue died at Gottingen at a very advanced age, in July 1814. His life, which has been written at some length by his son-in-law Heeren (8vo, Gottingen, 1813), contains an interesting account of the difficulties that this scholar had to encounter in early life.