Friedrich Gottlob Haase (January 4, 1808 - August 16, 1867), German classical scholar, was born at Magdeburg.

Having studied at Halle, Greifswald and Berlin, he obtained in 1834 an appointment at Schulpforta , from which he was suspended and sentenced to six years' imprisonment for identifying himself with the Burschenschaften (students' associations).

Having been released after serving one year of his sentence, he visited Paris, and on his return in 1840 he was appointed professor at Breslau, where he remained till his death. He was undoubtedly one of the most successful teachers of his day in Germany, and exercised great influence upon all his pupils.

He edited several classic authors:

• Xenophon (Aa,ceSanioviwv roXerela, 1833)
• Thucydides (1840)
• Velleius Paterculus (1858)
• Seneca the philosopher (2nd ed., 1872, not yet superseded)
• Tacitus (1855), the introduction to which is a masterpiece of Latinity

His Vorlesungen über lateinische Sprachwissenschaft was published after his death by FA Eckstein and H Peter (1874-188o).

See Conrad Bursian, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883); G Fickert, Friderici Haasii memoria (1868), with a list of works; T Ölsner in Rübezahl (Schlesische Provinzialblatter), vii. Heft 3 (Breslau, 1868).