Leonhard von Spengel

He attended the lyceum in his hometown, where as a pupil of Joseph Kopp and Johann von Gott Fröhlich, he was encouraged to study philology.

He became known through his edition (1826) of Varro's De Lingua Latina and subsequently was appointed lector.

As a university student his influences were Gottfried Hermann (Leipzig) and August Boeckh and Immanuel Bekker (Berlin).

He turned down an offer of a professorship from the University of Kiel, and from 1830 taught classes as a gymnasium professor in Munich.

[3] His address Ueber das Studium der Rhetorik bei den Alten (1842) is a valuable outline sketch of the art of eloquence in classical times.