KURT WACHSMUTH
\kˈɜːt wˈat͡ʃsmʌθ], \kˈɜːt wˈatʃsmʌθ], \k_ˈɜː_t w_ˈa_tʃ_s_m_ʌ_θ]\
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A German antiquarian; born at Naumburg on the Saale, April 27, 1837. He became professor at Marburg in 1864, and at Leipsic in 1886. His principal works are: "Timon the Phliasian, and Other Greek Satirists" (1859); "The Doctrine of the Stoics on Divination and Daemons" (1860); "Old Greece in the New" (1864); "The City of Athens in Antiquity" (2 vols., 1874-90); "Introduction to the Study of Ancient History" (1895).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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