Georg Friedrich Creuzer, a German philologist and antiquary, born at Marburg, March 10, 1771, died in Heidelberg, Feb. 16, 1858. He was the son of a bookbinder, commenced his studies in his native city, and completed them at the university of Jena. After his return to Marburg he was appointed professor of Greek, and subsequently of rhetoric, poetry, and Greek literature; and in 1804 he became professor of philology and ancient history at Heidelberg, which post he held till 1845. The philological seminary, which was founded at Heidelberg in 1807 according to his plans, has since exercised a marked influence upon that branch of science in Germany. His literary fame rests chiefly on his Symbolik und Mytho-logie der alien Volker, besonders der Griechen (4 vols., Leipsic, 1810-12). This work, which contends for a bold and mystical theory as to the extreme antiquity and oriental origin of the Greek mythological systems, drew upon the author a series of critical attacks from Hermann, Yoss, Lobeck, and others. Among the most remarkable of his other publications are editions of Plotinus (3 vols., Oxford, 1835) and Cicero; Die Historische Kunst der Griechen (Leipsic, 1803); Dionysus, seu Com-mentationes de Rerum Bacchicarum Origini-bus et Causis (2 vols., Heidelberg, 1808); Abriss der romischen Antiquitaten (Leipsic, 1824); Zur Geschichte altrbmischer Cultur am Ober-rhein und Neckar (Leipsic, 1833); Zur Galerie der alien Dramatiker (Heidelberg, 1839); Zur Geschichte der classischen Philologie (Frankfort, 1854); and the autobiographical sketches Aus dem Leben eines alien Professors (Leipsic, 1848), and Paralipomena der Lebensskizze eines alien Professors (Frankfort, 1858). Several of his works have been translated into foreign languages.