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
- Albert Reichardt : Nauck, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 782-784.
- Wolfhart Unte : Nauck, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 758 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Members of the previous academies. August Nauck. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 13, 2015 .
Web links
- Literature by and about August Nauck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about August Nauck in the German Digital Library
- Wilt Aden Schröder : Biogram of August Nauck in the scholarly historical prosopography of the Teuchos Center
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Nauck, August |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Philolog |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1822 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Auerstädt |
DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1892 |
Place of death | St. Petersburg |