August Rossbach
August Rossbach was a German classical philologist and archaeologist. He is known for his investigations of ancient Greek metrics, defined as a discipline that studies the patterns and arrangements of syllables and words that characterize Greek poetry.
He received his education at the Universities of Leipzig and Marburg, receiving his habilitation in 1852. After becoming an associate professor at the University of Tübingen, he relocated to Breslau in 1856, where he was appointed a professor of philology and archaeology.
With Rudolf Westphal, he collaborated on Metrik der griechischen Dramatiker und Lyriker as well as Theorie der musischen Kunste der Hellene. He was the author of writings on Catullus and Tibullus, and published a work on Roman marriage, "Römisches Hochzeits- und Ehedenkmäler.
