Georg Ludwig Spalding
Georg Ludwig Spalding (born April 8, 1762 in Barth , † June 7, 1811 in Friedrichsfelde near Berlin) was a German philologist.
Life
Georg Ludwig Spalding was the son of the Protestant theologian Johann Joachim Spalding and his first wife Wilhelmine Gebhardi; the later lawyer Karl August Wilhelm Spalding was his brother.
After first lessons from his father, he completed his school days in Berlin . After graduating in 1780, Spalding began to study at the Georg-August University of Göttingen at the age of 18 . He later moved to the University of Halle . Spalding successfully completed his studies in 1787 with a dissertation. Immediately thereafter, he got a job as a lecturer at the Gray Monastery high school . The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin accepted Spalding as a member a short time later. As such he was able to publish In Midiam by Demosthenes in 1794 ; a work that Philipp Karl Buttmann re-published for 29 years. From 1798 onwards, Quintilian's works were revised by Spalding (4 volumes), which were later continued by Karl Gottlob Zumpt (volume 5) and Eduard Bonnell (volume 6). He was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Spalding died at the age of 49.
Works
- Vindiciae philosophorum megaricorum . Hall 1792.
literature
- Georg Ludwig Walch : Memoria Georgii Ludovici Spaldingii . Publisher Nauck, Berlin 1821.
- Richard Hoche: Spalding, Georg Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 29 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Ludwig Spalding in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spalding, Georg Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barth |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1811 |
| Place of death | Friedrichsfelde near Berlin |