Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand

Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand (15 February 1786 – 14 March 1851), German classical scholar, was born at Plauen in Saxony.

[1] The work by which Hand is chiefly known is his (unfinished) edition of the treatise of Horatius Tursellinus (Orazio Torsellino, 1545–1599) on the Latin particles (Tursellinus, seu de particulis Latinis commentarii, 1829–1845).

Like his treatise on Latin style (Lehrbuch des lateinischen Stils, 3rd ed.

[1] Hand was also an enthusiastic musician, and in his "Asthetik der Tonkunst" (1837-1841) he was the first to introduce the subject of musical aesthetics.

Lawson ("Aesthetics of Musical Art, or The Beautiful in Music", 1880), and B. Sears's "Classical Studies" (1849) contains a "History of the Origin and Progress of the Latin Language", abridged from Hand's work on the subject.