{{Short description|German archaeologist and classical philologist}} '''Karl Wilhelm August Reifferscheid''' (3 October 1835 – 10 November 1887) was a German archaeologist and classical philologist.
==Biography== He was born and educated in Bonn. He received a traveling fellowship in archaeology from the University of Bonn, and spent 1861–66 mostly in Italy, part of the time fulfilling a request by the Vienna Academy to do archival research for the ''Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum''. He was professor at Breslau (1868–85), and beginning in 1885, a professor at the University of Strassburg (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Universität).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IU4MLOE8Z2UC&dq=%22Reifferscheid%2C+August%22+1835+Bonn&pg=PA1103 Deutsche Philologie an den preußischen Universitäten im 19. Jahrhundert ...] edited by Uwe Meves</ref>
Reifferscheid died in Strassburg, Alsace-Lorraine.
==Works== His works include: * ''Suetoni præter Cæsarum Libros Reliquiæ'' (1860); the standard edition of these fragments. * ''Bibliotheca Patrum Latinorum Italica'' (2 volumes, 1865–72). * ''Arnobii Adversvs nationes libri VII'' (1875); main author, Arnobius. * An edition of Anna Comnena's ''Alexiad'' (1878). * A partial edition of Tertullian, ''Quinti Septimi Florentis Tertulliani'' (edited by Georg Wissowa, 1890).<ref>[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Reifferscheid,August,1835-1887.%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library] published works</ref>
==References== * {{NIE|wstitle=Reifferscheid, August|year=1905}} {{reflist}}
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