met him and asked his age and was disappointed that at nineteen Schurz was still too young to be a member of the planned parliament. An account of Ritschl's life is given in: Gildersleeve, Basil L. (1884). "Friedrich Ritschl". The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 5, No. 3 (1884), pp. 339–355. See also Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Alfred Fleckeisen Notes Attribution: References Otto Ribbeck, Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Philologie. (Leipzig, 1879–81). 1806 births 1876 deaths People from Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis German Protestants German classical scholars German philologists Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Academic staff of the University of Bonn People of the Revolutions of 1848 Leipzig University alumni University of Halle alumni Academic staff of the University of Halle