Franz Eyssenhardt (6 March 1838 – 30 November 1901) was a German classical philologist born in Berlin.

Franz Eyssenhardt
Born(1838-03-06)6 March 1838
Died30 November 1901(1901-11-30) (aged 63)
Hamburg, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
NationalityGerman
Academic work
DisciplineClassical philology

He studied philology in Berlin, and subsequently became an instructor at the Werderscher gymnasium. In 1868-69 he performed research in Italy, and in 1876 was appointed professor at the Johanneum in Hamburg. From 1882 to 1900 he was director of the Hamburg city library.

Eyssenhardt was author of editions of Martianus Capella, Phaedrus, Macrobius, Apuleius and Ammianus Marcellinus. Another noted work of his was an 1886 biography of historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776-1831).

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He was the author of a dozen articles in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.[2]

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