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Friedrich Haase enrolled at Halle to study with Christian Karl Reisig (1792-1829), proponent of “semasiology.” After Reisig’s death in Venice at 36, Haase published his lectures on linguistics. Haase moved on to Greifswald where he studied under the Swedish Hellenist Georg Friedrich Schömann (1793-1879) and Berlin under August Boeckh (1785-1867) and Karl Lachmann (1793-1851). Haase edition of Xenophon on the Spartans secured him a position at the most prestigious preparatory school in Germany, Schulpforte, in 1834. With a charm and humor seemingly inherited from his father, Haase was effective as a teacher and popular with his students. Along with other faculty he involved himself in a student fraternity (Burschenschaft) that he had belonged to as a student at Halle and at Greifswald, where he had been an officer. This made him suspect to the authorities and he, along with two other faculty were dismissed. Haase was arrested and sentenced to six years’ imprisonment but was released after one year. With little likelihood of finding employment as a teacher, Haase returned to Magdeburg and then to Berlin where the refendery to the Prussian ministry of Education in Berlin, Johann Schulze (1786-1869) secured him a grant to study in Paris in 1838, where he remained for a year.  He succeeded friend and former classmate Friedrich Ritschl (1806-76), another student of Reisig, at Breslau and was as effective and popular as before, but he was not approved by Minister of Ecclesiastical, Educational and Medical Affairs, Friedrich Eichhorn (1779-1856) and so his advancement was delayed. He was given the chance to direct the Elisabeth Gymnasium in Breslau in 1844, hut declined. His promotion came through in 1846 and he advanced his career to Rector. His editions of a number of ancient authors were largely published in Breslau for use in schools. Haase supported his parents until their deaths; his own death came after a two-week battle with typhus at 59 years of age.