Ritschl, Friedrich Wilhelm, German philologist, born near Erfurt; became professor of Philology successively at Breslau, Bonn, and Leipzig; his influence on philological study was great, and his greatest work was an edition of Plautus (1806‒1876).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ritschl, Albrecht * Ritson, Joseph