Freund,

Freund, WILHELM, German philologist, born of Jewish parents, 27th January 1806, at Kempen in Posen. Having studied at Berlin and Breslau (1824-28), he taught at Breslau, Hirschberg (1848-51), and Gleiwitz (1855-70), and finally settled down at Breslau to a life of literary activity. His principal work is a Wörterbuch der lateinischen Sprache (4 vols. Leip. 1834-45), on which the best-known English-Latin dictionaries (Andrews, Lewis and Short, &c.) are based. Besides this he has written a number of school-books, especially on the Greek and Roman classics, and some on philology, as Wie studiert man Philologie? (5th ed. Leip. 1885), and Grundzüge der philologischen Wissenschaften (3d ed. 1885 et seq.).