Friedrich August Wolf

Friedrich August Wolf (February 15, 1759–August 8, 1824) was a German philologist and critic.He was born at Hainrode, a village not far from Nordhausen, in the province of Hanover. His father was the village schoolmaster and organist. In time the family moved to Nordhausen, and there young Wolf went to the grammar school, where he soon acquired all the Latin and Greek that the masters could teach him, besides learning French, Italian, Spanish, and music. His attainments were only equalled by the confidence in his own powers which characterized his subsequent life.
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Noun
1. German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)
(synonym) Wolf
(hypernym) classicist, classical scholar