​WESTPHAL, RUDOLF (1826-1892), German classical scLolar, was born at Obcrnkirchen in Schaumburg on the 3rd of July 1S26 He studied at Marburg and Tubingen, and was professor at Breslau (1858-1S62) and Moscow (1875-1879). He subsequently lived at Biickeburg, and died at Stadthagen in Schaumburg-Lippe on the 10th of July 1892. Westphal was a man of varied attainments, but his chief claim to remembrance rests upon his contributions on Greek music and metre. His chief works are. Griecliischc Mctrik (3rd ed., 1885-1889); System dcr anlikcn Rhytlimik (1S65), Hephaestion's De mdns enchiridion {1S66); Arisloxcnus of Tarcntum (translation and commentary, 1S83-1893, vol. ii . being edited after his death by F. Saran); Die Musik dcs griechisclien Altcrtums (1883); Allgcmeinc Mclrik dcr indogcrmanischcn wid scmilischen Volkcr (1S92). He made translations of Catullus (1870) and of Aristophanes Acliarniatis (iSSg), in which he successfully reproduced the Dorisms in Plattdeutsch.