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'''Karl Julius Sillig''' (born 1801, d. 1855) was a German [[classics]] scholar, and pupil of [[Karl Böttiger|Karl August Böttiger]]. Sillig went on to edit many of Böttiger's works after the latter's death in 1835.<ref name="hcs">{{cite book | last = Sandys | first = John Edwin | authorlink = John Edwin Sandys | coauthors = | title = A History of Classical Scholarship | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] | date = 1908 | location = Cambridge | pages = 74 | url = http://books.google.com/?id=PSdN05UllRMC | doi = | id = | isbn = }}</ref> He also revised and edited the work of other scholars, such as [[Christian Gottlob Heyne]]. Heyne published an edition of the poem "Culex" from the ''[[Appendix Vergiliana]]'', a collection of verse often attributed at least in part to [[Virgil]], and attempted to cull the lines he thought not genuinely produced by Virgil; an approach of which Sillig was highly critical when he revised Heyne's works.<ref>{{cite journal | last = St. Louis | first = Lisa | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Laying the Foundation for a New Work on the Pseudo-Virgilian ''Culex'' | journal = CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture | volume = 8 | issue = 1 | pages = | publisher = [[Purdue University Press]] | location = | date = March 2006 | url = http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol8/iss1/6/ | doi = | issn = 1481-4374 | accessdate = 2011-11-05 }}</ref>
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'''Karl Julius Sillig''' (12 May 1801 – 14 January 1855) was a German [[classics]] scholar, and pupil of [[Karl Böttiger|Karl August Böttiger]]. Sillig went on to edit many of Böttiger's works after the latter's death in 1835.<ref name="hcs">{{cite book | last = Sandys | first = John Edwin | author-link = John Edwin Sandys | title = A History of Classical Scholarship | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] | date = 1908 | location = Cambridge | pages = [https://archive.org/details/ahistoryclassic08sandgoog/page/n100 74] | url = https://archive.org/details/ahistoryclassic08sandgoog }}</ref> He also revised and edited the work of other scholars, such as [[Christian Gottlob Heyne]]. Heyne published an edition of the poem "Culex" from the ''[[Appendix Vergiliana]]'', a collection of verse often attributed at least in part to [[Virgil]], and attempted to cull the lines he thought not genuinely produced by Virgil; an approach of which Sillig was highly critical when he revised Heyne's works.<ref>{{cite journal | last = St. Louis | first = Lisa | title = Laying the Foundation for a New Work on the Pseudo-Virgilian ''Culex'' | journal = CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture | volume = 8 | issue = 1 | publisher = [[Purdue University Press]] | date = March 2006 | url = https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol8/iss1/6/ | issn = 1481-4374 | access-date = 2011-11-05 }}</ref>


Born in [[Dresden]], he studied at [[Leipzig]] and [[Göttingen]], and was a [[schoolmaster]] at Dresden for the last thirty years of his life. His ''Catalogus Artificium'' (1827) was considered a useful work in its time. His edition of [[Catullus]] less so, although his edition of [[Pliny the Elder]] seems to have been well regarded. He was often referenced in works of 19th century classical scholarship, such as the ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'' of [[William Smith (lexicographer)|William Smith]]. However, early 20th century critics felt that as an editor he was too much given to the accumulation of details, and was deficient in judgment and critical method.<ref name="hcs"/>
Born in [[Dresden]], he studied at [[Leipzig]] and [[Göttingen]], and was a [[schoolmaster]] at Dresden for the last thirty years of his life. His ''Catalogus Artificium'' (1827) was considered a useful work in its time. His edition of [[Catullus]] less so, although his edition of [[Pliny the Elder]] seems to have been well regarded. He was often referenced in works of 19th century classical scholarship, such as the ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'' of [[William Smith (lexicographer)|William Smith]]. However, early 20th century critics felt that as an editor he was too much given to the accumulation of details, and was deficient in judgment and critical method.<ref name="hcs"/>
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Karl Julius Sillig
Born12 May 1801
Dresden, Saxony
Died14 January 1855(1855-01-14) (aged 53)
Nationality (legal)German
Occupation(s)classical scholar
writer

Karl Julius Sillig (12 May 1801 – 14 January 1855) was a German classics scholar, and pupil of Karl August Böttiger. Sillig went on to edit many of Böttiger's works after the latter's death in 1835.[1] He also revised and edited the work of other scholars, such as Christian Gottlob Heyne. Heyne published an edition of the poem "Culex" from the Appendix Vergiliana, a collection of verse often attributed at least in part to Virgil, and attempted to cull the lines he thought not genuinely produced by Virgil; an approach of which Sillig was highly critical when he revised Heyne's works.[2]

Born in Dresden, he studied at Leipzig and Göttingen, and was a schoolmaster at Dresden for the last thirty years of his life. His Catalogus Artificium (1827) was considered a useful work in its time. His edition of Catullus less so, although his edition of Pliny the Elder seems to have been well regarded. He was often referenced in works of 19th century classical scholarship, such as the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology of William Smith. However, early 20th century critics felt that as an editor he was too much given to the accumulation of details, and was deficient in judgment and critical method.[1]

Works

  • Catalogus Artificium (1827)
    • Dictionary of the Artists of Antiquity: architects, carvers, engravers, modellers, painters, sculptors, statuaries, and workers in bronze, gold, ivory, and silver, with three chronological tables; by Julius Sillig, tr. by the Rev. H. W. Williams, to which are added C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis historiae libri XXXIV-XXXVI. c. 8 [i.e.1]-5. With four indexes and a preface, by E. H. Barker. London: Black and Armstrong, 1837.
  • P. Virgilii Maronis opera varietate lectionis et perpetua adnotatione illustratus. Vol. 4. Leipzig: Sumtibus Librariae Hahnianae (1832, revision of works of Christian Gottlob Heyne)
  • Kleine Schriften (1837, editor)
  • Opuscula (1837, editor)

References

  1. ^ a b Sandys, John Edwin (1908). A History of Classical Scholarship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 74.
  2. ^ St. Louis, Lisa (March 2006). "Laying the Foundation for a New Work on the Pseudo-Virgilian Culex". CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. 8 (1). Purdue University Press. ISSN 1481-4374. Retrieved 2011-11-05.


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