Christoph Wilhelm Mitscherlich

Christoph Wilhelm Mitscherlich (20 October 1760, in Weissensee (Thuringia) – 6 January 1854, in Göttingen) was a German classical scholar.

He is best remembered for his edition of the Odes and Epodes by the Roman poet Horace.

[1] From 1779 he studied at the University of Göttingen as a pupil of Christian Gottlob Heyne.

In 1785 he became an associate professor at Göttingen, where he also worked in the university library.

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