Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens

Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens (6 June 1809, Helmstedt – 25 September 1881, Hanover) was a German philologist.

After studying at the University of Göttingen (1826-1829) under Karl Otfried Müller and Georg Ludolf Dissen, he worked as schoolteacher at the Pädagogium in Ilfeld (from 1831).

[1][2] His most important work was "De Graecae Linguae Dialectis" (1839-1843),[3] a study of Aeolic and Doric dialects that became a standard treatise on the subject.

He also published "Bucolicorum Graecorum Reliquiae" (1855-1859);[4] studies on the dialects of Homer and the Greek lyrists; on Aeschylus ("De causis quibusdam Aeschyli Nondum satis emendati"); and some excellent school textbooks.

A volume of his minor works (edited by Carl Ernst Christian Häberlin) was published in 1891, which also contains a complete list of his writings.