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German classical philologist (–)

Karl Ludwig Reinhardt (February 14, – January 9, ) was a German classical philologist.

Life

Reinhardt was born in Detmold, and grew up in Frankfurt, the city to which his father, the educational reformer Karl Reinhardt, Sr., had been called in to serve as head of the Lessing-Gymnasium. In Frankfurt the younger Reinhardt studied at the Goethe-Gymnasium, a secondary school founded in on the principles of his father's Frankfurter Lehrplan ("Frankfurt Teaching Plan"), and directed by him from to

Karl Ludwig was the grandson of businessman Carl Johann Freudenberg, founder of the Freudenberg Group (Unternehmensgruppe Freudenberg).

In , he began studying classical philology at the University of Bonn and the Humboldt University of Berlin. There he received his doctorate in under Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. Upon graduation, he taught at the universities of Bonn, Marburg, and Hamburg, until he was called