Ahrens

, philologist, was born June 6th, 1809, at Helmstadt, Germany, and was educated at Göttingen, where he became a privat-docent in 1830. From 1831 to 1845 he was a teacher in the Paedagogium at Ilfeld, leaving it to become head of the Lyceum in Hanover, an office which he filled until 1879. He died at Hanover, Sept.24thSept., 1881.His principal works are the treatises, De Graecae Linguae Dialectis (Lib.i.De Dialectis Aeolicis et Pseudo-aeolicis, 1839; Lib.ii.De Dialecto Dorico, 1843); Griech. Formenlehre des homerischen und attischen Dialekts (1852); and Bucolicorum Graecorum Theocriti, Biontis, Moschi Reliquiae, 2 vols. (1855-59). See Dialects.