Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich

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Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich (* 1783 in Westerengel not far from Trebra , Schwarzburg-Sondershausen ; † March 14, 1816 in Göttingen ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Wunderlich attended high school in Gotha as a student of Friedrich Jacobs . With this background he studied classical philology at the University of Göttingen from 1801 to 1803 as a student of Christian Gottlob Heynes . In 1803 he was appointed collaborator at the Göttingen grammar school and was able to finance his further academic studies in this position. In 1806 he received his doctorate, in 1808 he was appointed assessor at the university, then in the same year he was appointed associate professor of classical philology. One of his students was Karl Lachmann , who later founded modern text criticism . Wunderlich died unexpectedly in 1816 of acute diphtheria ( sore throat ) at the age of 33.

His sons were the lawyer Agathon Wunderlich (1810–1878) and the later Prussian Consistorial President Oskar Wunderlich († 1882), the father of the officer of the same name, Oskar Wunderlich (1846–1914).

Works

Wunderlich wrote editions by various authors geared towards school use in Heyne's tradition:

literature

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