August Seidler

Johann Friedrich August Seidler (born April 16, 1779 in Osterfeld (near Naumburg) , † December 14, 1851 in Leipzig ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

After graduating from the Domgymnasium Naumburg (1798), Seidler studied theology and philology in Wittenberg and Leipzig . Here his fellow student Christian August Lobeck and his teacher Gottfried Hermann influenced him to devote himself to Greek literature and metrics.

In 1809 Seidler became a teacher at the Nikolaischule in Leipzig. Two years later he published the fruit of his years of research, the metric study De versibus Dochmiacis tragicorum graecorum . In 1816, Seidler was appointed professor of Greek literature at the University of Halle , which was merged with the University of Wittenberg a year later .

Seidler retired in 1824. From then on he lived as a private scholar and Saxon court advisor in Lindenau , Crossen an der Elster and Leipzig. He continued to associate with his former colleagues, but no longer appeared in scientific publications. In 1846, the year it was founded, he became a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences .

literature

• Richard Hoche :  Seidler, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 640 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Members of the SAW: August Seidler. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed December 3, 2016 .