Christian Lobeck

His most important work, Aglaophamus (1829), maintains, against the views put forward by G. F. Creuzer in his Symbolik (1810–1823), that the religion of the Greek mysteries (especially those of Eleusis) did not essentially differ from the national religion; that it was not esoteric, and that the priests as such neither taught nor possessed any higher knowledge of God; that the Oriental elements were a later importation.

[2] According to Radcliffe Edmonds, it is with Lobeck's work that the "history of modern Orphic scholarship begins".

[3] Lobeck's edition of the Ajax of Sophocles (1809)[a] had gained him a reputation a scholar and critic; his Phrynichus (1820), Paralipomena grammaticae Graecae (vol.

He had little sympathy with comparative philology, holding that it needed a lifetime to acquire a thorough knowledge of a single language.

[1] See the article by L. Friedländer in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie; Conrad Bursian's Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883); Lehrs, Populäre Aufsätze aus dem Altertum (2nd ed., Leipzig, 1875); Lüdwich, Ausgewählte Briefe von und an Chr.