Johann Augustin Wagner

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Johann Augustin Wagner (born December 19, 1734 in Lohmen near Pirna , † June 14, 1807 in Merseburg ) was a German classical philologist and teacher .

Life

Johann Augustin Wagner attended the Kreuzschule in Dresden and studied from 1754 at the universities of Leipzig and Wittenberg . From 1760 he worked as a private tutor. In 1770 he became vice principal at the Stiftsgymnasium (cathedral school) in Merseburg , where he worked until his death.

In addition to his school service, Wagner dealt with the Greek and Latin literature of the Roman Empire . He published complete translations of the historiographers Cassius Dio (1783–1787) and Ammianus Marcellinus (1792–1794) as well as annotated editions of the sophist Alkiphron (1798), the epic poet Valerius Flaccus (1805) and Ammianus Marcellinus (1808, edited posthumously by his successor Karl Gottlob August Erfurdt ), as well as an edition of the Chronicon of Bishop Thietmar von Merseburg (1807).

Fonts

  • Dio Cassius Roman History. Translated from the Greek . Four volumes, Frankfurt am Main 1783–1787
  • Ammian Marcellin translated from Latin and accompanied by explanatory notes . Three volumes, Frankfurt am Main 1792–1794
  • Alciphronis rhetoris epistolae ex fide aliquot codicum recensitae vum Stephani Bergleri commentario integro, cui aliorum criticorum et suas notationes versionem emendatam indiculumque adiecit Ioannes Augustinus Wagner . Two volumes, Leipzig 1798
  • C. Valerii Flacci Setini Balbi Argonauticon libri VIII: Ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensiti atque prooemio argumentis et indice rerum instructi a Ioanne Augustino Wagner . Göttingen 1805
  • Commentarius perpetuus in C. Valerii Flacci Setini Balbi Argonauticon libros VIII . Göttingen 1805
  • Dithmari episcopi Merseburgensis Chronicon ad fidem codicis qui in tabulario regio Dresdae servatur denuo recensuit IF Ursini, IFA Kinderlingii et AC Wedekindi passim et suas adiecit notas Ioan. Augustine. Wagner . Nuremberg 1807
  • Ammiani Marcellini quae supersunt cum notis integris Frid. Lindenbrogii, Henr. et Hadr. Valesiorum et Iac. Gronovii quibus Thom. Reinesii quasdam et suas adiecit Io. Augustine. Wagner. Editionem completed with Car. Thank God Aug. Erfurdt . Leipzig and London 1808

literature

  • Johann August Philipp Hennicke: Something about Johann August Wagner . Merseburg 1810
  • Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the now living German writers . Volume 16 (1812), p. 133
  • Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator philologorum . Leipzig 1871, pp. 602-603
  • Wilhelm Pökel : Philological writer's lexicon . Leipzig 1882, p. 294

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Johann Augustin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Johann August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH Lohmen near Pirna
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1807
Place of death Merseburg