Christoph Eberhard Finckh

Christoph Eberhard Finckh (born March 27, 1802 in Reutlingen , † December 17, 1869 in Heilbronn ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

After studying classical philology and Protestant theology, Finckh worked as a repetitionist at the Protestant theological seminar at the University of Tübingen , and later as the rector of the Reutlingen Latin School . In 1840 he moved to the Heilbronn grammar school as a high school professor , where he was appointed rector in 1860 and died in 1869.

Finckh already appeared as a repetitionist in Tübingen with a translation of the Socratic writings of Xenophon ( Xenophon's von Athen Werke , Volume 4, Stuttgart: JB Metzler 1827), which he repeated in the series Xenophon's selected writings (4th department, Stuttgart: JB Metzler 1857). His comprehensive edition of the Progymnasmata of the Sophist Theon (Stuttgart 1834) contained many printed and unprinted annotations as well as scholia and indices. In other essays and manifestos, he also dealt with Xenophon ( Cyropaedia , 1827), Olympiodorus ( Olympiodori philosophical scholia in Platonis Phaedonem , Heilbronn 1837), Aphthonius and Nikolaos Sophist ( Aphthonii et Nicolai sophistarum Progymnasmata illustrantur , Heilbronn 1865) Zenobius ( in Zenobii Proverbia annotationes , Heilbronn 1843) and other writings ( in Longini Artem rhetoricam et in Demetrii libellum de elocutione annotationes criticae , Heilbronn 1827 Commentatio de auctore Rhetoricae quae dicitur ad Alexandrum, et de locis nonnullis eius libri vel emendandis vel illustrandis , Heilbronn 1849; de incerti auctoris artis rhetoricae post Sequerium a Leonardo Spengelio editae locis aliquot emendantis , Heilbronn 1854).

literature

• Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator Philologorum , 1870, p. 133.
• Wilhelm Pökel: Philological Writer's Lexicon , Leipzig 1882, p. 321.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eckstein (1870) 133 states 1870 differently .