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BAITER, JOHANN GEORG (1801–1877)

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BAITER, JOHANN GEORG (1801–1877) , Swiss philologist and textual critic, was See also:born at See also:Zurich on the 31st of May 18or. Having received his See also:early See also:education in his native See also:place, he went (1818) to the university of See also:Tubingen, but from want of funds was obliged to return to Zurich, where for several years he was a private See also:tutor. From 1824 to 1829 he studied at See also:Munich under See also:Friedrich See also:Thiersch; at See also:Gottingen, under Georg Dissen; at See also:Konigsberg, under See also:Christian See also:Lobeck. From 1833 to 1876 he was Oberlehrer at the gymnasium in Zurich, where he died on the loth of See also:October 1877. Baiter's strong point was textual See also:criticism, applied chiefly to See also:Cicero and the See also:Attic orators; he was very successful in See also:hunting up the best MS. authorities, and his collations were made with the greatest accuracy. Most of his See also:works were produced in collaboration with other scholars, such as See also:Orelli, who regarded him as his right-See also:hand See also:man. He edited Isocrates, Panegyricus (1831); with Sauppe, See also:Lycurgus, Leocralea(1834) and Oratores Attici (1838–185o) ; with-Orelli and See also:Winckelmann, a See also:critical edition of See also:Plato (1839–1842), which marked a distinct advance in the See also:text, two new See also:MSS. being laid under contribution; with Orelli, See also:Babrius, Fabellae Iambicae nuper repartee (1845); Isocrates, in the See also:Didot collection of See also:classics (1846). He had for some See also:time been associated with Orelli in his See also:great See also:work on Cicero, and assisted in Ciceronis Scholiastae (1833) and Onomasticon Tullianum (1836–1838). For the F See also:asti Consular es and Triumphales he was alone responsible. With Orelli and (after his See also:death) See also:Halm, he assisted in the second edition of the Cicero, and, with See also:Kayser, edited the same author for the See also:Tauchnitz See also:series (186o–1869). New See also:editions of Orelli's See also:Tacitus arid See also:Horace were also due to him. It is See also:worth noting that, with Sauppe, he translated See also:Leake's See also:Topography of See also:Athens.

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