Friedrich Wilhelm Otto (philologist)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Otto (born February 5, 1805 in Zittau , † April 21, 1866 in Gießen ) was a German classical philologist .

Otto attended the Johanneum High School in Zittau from 1817 and studied at the University of Leipzig from 1826 . On March 15, 1833 he became a provisional collaborator at the Philological Seminar of the University of Gießen , where he received his doctorate on March 3, 1834, and was since December 24, 1836, a full collaborator at the Philological Seminar in Gießen. From 1836 to 1849 he was an assistant teacher at the Giessen high school and from 1844 until his retirement on September 26, 1864, he was an associate professor of philology at the University of Giessen.

Fonts

  • Commentarii critici in codices Bibliothecae Academicae Gissensis Graecos et Latinos: philologicos et medii aevi historicos ac geographicos , Giessen 1842 [1]
  • Grammatici incerti de generibus nominum: de dubio genere opusculum; nunc primum separatim integrum commentariolo instructum cum appendice locorum Servianorum Philargyrianorumque in Virgilium de generibus nominum edidit , Giessen 1850

literature

  • Herman Haupt, Georg Lehnert: Chronicle of the University of Giessen, 1607 to 1907 . Giessen 1907.
personal data
SURNAME Otto, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1866
Place of death to water