Richard François Philippe Brunck

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Richard François Philippe Brunck , German Richard Franz Philipp Brunck , Latinized Brunckius (born December 30, 1729 in Strasbourg , † June 12, 1803 ibid) was a Strasbourg classical philologist .

Life and work

Brunck studied in Paris with the Jesuits at the Collège de Louis le Grand and then embarked on an administrative career. During the Seven Years' War he served in the war commissariat of the French army and came into contact with classical philology again in the winter of 1757 while staying in Gießen when he stayed with a professor of the subject. After his return to Strasbourg in 1760, in addition to his profession, he devoted himself intensively to philological studies as a lover and built up a valuable private library. Even without an academic post, he soon gained prestige in the learned world and emerged with a number of text editions.

After the turmoil of the French Revolution, in which Brunck initially took an active part, finally led to his imprisonment, he gave up classical studies after his release. In 1791 he even sold part of his library, presumably out of financial difficulties, and the rest was auctioned in 1801. From then on he did not want to know anything about philology.

As a philologist, Brunck worked through his text-critical work above all on the Greek authors, whose editions (some with Latin translations) saw numerous editions from his hand. In retrospect, his sometimes serious interventions in the texts are judged to be too radical and sometimes arbitrary. Nonetheless, it is acknowledged that with his keen literary instinct he greatly promoted the understanding of the Greek poets.

Works

  • Analecta veterum poetarum Graecorum. Bauer, Strasbourg 1772–1776.
  • Anacreontis Carmina. Strasbourg 1778.
  • Apollonii Rhodii Argonautica. Bauer and Treuttel, Strasbourg 1780.
  • Aristophanis comoediae. Treuttel, Strasbourg 1781–1783.
  • Ethike poiesis, sive, Gnomici poetae Graeci. Strasbourg 1784.
  • Virgilius, Publius Maro. Bucolica, Georgica, and Aeneis. Strasbourg 1785
  • Sophoclis tragoediae septem. Treuttel, Strasbourg 1786.
  • M. Acci Plauti Comoediae superstites viginti. Zweibrücken 1788.
  • Publius Terentius Afer. Comoediae VI. Decker, Basel 1797

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ So Karl Felix Halm , with reference to the Strasbourg philologist Johann Schweighäuser , in his biographical outline in the ADB (see literature)
  2. ↑ Ibid.



personal data
SURNAME Brunck, Richard François Philippe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunck, Richard Franz Philipp; Brunckius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Strasbourg classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1803
Place of death Strasbourg