Background
Johann Christian Felix Baehr was orn on the 13th of June, 1798 in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.
Librarian linguist philologist university professor
Johann Christian Felix Baehr was orn on the 13th of June, 1798 in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.
Johann Christian Felix Baehr studied at the Gymnasium and the University of Heidelberg.
Johann Christian Felix Baehr was appointed professor of classical philology in 1823 at the University of Heidelberg, chief librarian in 1832, and on the retirement of G. F. Creuzer, became director of the philological seminary. His earliest works were editions of Plutarch"s Alcibiades (1822), Philopoemen, Flamininus, Pyrrhus (1826), the fragments of Ctesias (1824), and Herodotus (1830–1835, 1855–1862). Die christlichen Dichter und Geschichtschreiber Roms ("Christian Poets and Historians of Rome", 2nd edition, 1872), Die christlich-römische Theologie ("Christian-Roman Theology", 1837), Geschichte der römischen Litteratur im karolingischen Zeitalter ("History of Roman Literature in the Carlovingian Period", 1840).