KARL LACHMANN
\kˈɑːl lˈat͡ʃman], \kˈɑːl lˈatʃman], \k_ˈɑː_l l_ˈa_tʃ_m_a_n]\
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A noted German philologist and critic; born at Brunswick, March 4, 1793; died at Berlin, March 13, 1851. With Jakob Grimm he was the founder of the Old-German philology, and was distinguished for the keenness of his critical method. Among the most important of his works were his treatment of the Nibelungen (1836), arguing that it is composed of twenty old folk-songs; "Views on Homer's Iliad" (1847), aiming to show it to be made up of single songs; and his editions of the Nibelungenlied (1826); Walther von der Vogelweide, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Propertius, Catullus, Tibullus, Lucretius, etc. He was professor at Konigsberg (1818) and Berlin (1825).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Dopamine Acetyltransferase
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