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Otto Jahn
1813–1869
A pioneering 19th-century German scholar, he helped shape the modern study of classical archaeology while also writing influential work on music and art. He is especially remembered for combining exacting philology with a broad cultural curiosity.
3 Audiobooks
Life of Mozart, Vol. 1 (of 3)
by Otto Jahn
Life of Mozart, Vol. 2 (of 3)
by Otto Jahn
Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by Otto Jahn
About the author
Born in Kiel on June 16, 1813, Otto Jahn became one of the most wide-ranging German scholars of his time: a philologist, archaeologist, and writer on art and music. After studying at Kiel, Leipzig, and Berlin, he went on to teach at several universities, including Leipzig and Bonn, and later died in Göttingen on September 9, 1869.
Jahn is often noted for bringing a more rigorous, scholarly method to the study of classical antiquity. His work ranged from editions of ancient authors to epigraphy and archaeology, and he also played an important part in the serious study of Greek vase painting.
His interests reached well beyond the ancient world. He wrote about music as well as art, and his biography of Mozart became one of his best-known books, showing the same careful research that marked his classical scholarship.