Wilhelm von Christ (August 2, 1831 - 1906), German classical scholar, was born in Geisenheim in Hesse-Nassau.
From 1854 till 1860 he taught in the Maximiliansgymnasium at Munich, and in 1861 was appointed professor of classical philology in the university.
His most important works are:
- Geschichte der griechischen Literatur (5th ed., 1908 f.), a history of Greek literature down to the time of Justinian, one of the best works on the subject
- Metrik der Griechen. und Romer (1879)
- editions of Pindar (1887)
- edition of the Poetika of Aristotle (1878)
- edition of the Melaphysica of Aristotle (1895)
- Iliad (1884)
His contributions to the Sitzungsberichte and Abhandlungen of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences are particularly valuable.
See O Crusius, Gedächtnisrede (Munich, 1907).
