August Nauck

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August Nauck

August Nauck (born September 18, 1822 in Auerstädt in Thuringia , † August 3, 1892 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German philologist .

Life

August Nauck studied in Halle from 1841 to 1847 and was adjunct at the Joachimsthal School in Berlin in 1853 . In 1858 he became a senior teacher at the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster and in 1859 moved to Saint Petersburg as an extraordinary member of the Academy of Sciences , where he became a full member in 1861. In 1869 he became a full professor of Greek literature at the historical-philological institute. In 1881 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1889 he was finally appointed a foreign member of the Philosophical-Philological Class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . From 1861 he was also a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . August Nauck made a special contribution to the criticism and explanation of the Greek tragedians and Homers .

Fonts (selection)

  • Euripidis tragoediae (Leipzig 1854, vol. 1 and 2; 3rd edition I871; vol. 3 [fragments] 1869)
  • Euripidean Studies (Petersburg 1859–62, 2 parts)
  • Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (Leipzig 1856)
  • Sophoclis tragoediae (Berlin 1867)
  • Odyssey (Berlin 1874, 2 vol.)
  • Iliad (das. 1877–79, 2 vol.)
  • Aristophanis Byzantii grammatici Alexandrini fragmenta (Hall 1848)
  • Porphyrii philosophi Platonici opuscula (Leipzig 1860)
  • Lexicon Vindobonense (Petersburg 1867)
  • Jamblichi de vita Pythagorica liber (ibid. 1884)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 177.
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. August Nauck. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 13, 2015 .

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