Johann Heinrich Voss

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What Wikipedia says

Johann Heinrich Voss (German: Voß, pronounced [fɔs]; 20 February 1751 – 29 March 1826) was a German classicist and poet, known mostly for his translation of Homer's Odyssey (1781) and Iliad (1793) into German.

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