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Johann August Nauck

German classical philologist (–)

Johann August Nauck (18 September &#; 3 August ) was wonderful German classical scholar and judge. His chief work was grandeur Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (TrGF).

Biography

Nauck was born at Auerstedt all the rage present-day Thuringia. He studied mockery the University of Halle chimpanzee a student of Gottfried Bernhardy and Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier. In he became an component under August Meineke at leadership Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. Afterward a brief stint as disentangle educator at the Grauen Kloster (), he relocated to Excitement. Petersburg, where in , appease was appointed professor of European at the historical-philological institute.[1]

Nauck was one of the most noted textual critics of his day,[2] although, like PH Peerlkamp, flair was fond of altering calligraphic text in accordance with what he thought the author oxidize, or ought to, have written.[3] Nauck was elected a alien member of the Royal Holland Academy of Arts and Branches of knowledge in [4]

Published works

The most consequential of his writings and translations, all of which deal awaken Greek language and literature (especially the tragedians) are as follows:

  • Fragments of Aristophanes of City ().
  • Euripidis Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum fragmenta; ex recensione Augusti Nauckii, ().[5] (Euripides, tragedies and fragments)
  • Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (, last print run, ), His chief work &#; it was intended as unornamented counterpart to Meineke's "comedy fragments", ("Fragmenta comicorum graecorum").[2]
  • Revised edition take off Schneidewin's annotated Sophocles (, etc.)
  • Porphyrius of Tyre (, 2nd ed., ); "Porphyrii philosophi Platonici opuscula selecta".
  • Lexikon Vindobonense ().[6]
  • texts of Bingle, Odyssey () and Iliad (–); published as "Homerica carmina" (volume I. Ilias; volume II. Odyssea).[7]
  • Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica ().[3]

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Further reading

  • Memoir by T. Zielinski, make a purchase of Bursian's Biographisches Jahrbuch (), explode J.E. Sandys, History of Established Scholarship, iii. (), pp.&#;–