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See also:BECK, See also:CHRISTIAN See also:DANIEL (1757-1832) , See also:German philologist, historian, theologian and antiquarian, one of the most learned men of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, was See also:born at See also:Leipzig on the 22nd of See also:January 1757. He studied at Leipzig University, where he was appointed (1785) See also:professor of See also:Greek and Latin literature. This See also:post he resigned in 1819 in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to take up the professorship of See also:history, but resumed it in 1825. He also had the management of the university library, was director of the See also:institute for the See also:deaf and dumb, and filled many educational and municipal offices. In 1784 he founded a philological society, which See also:grew into a philological See also:seminary, superintended by him until his See also:death. In 1808 he was made a Hofrath by the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Saxony, and in 182o a See also:knight of the See also:civil order of merit. His philological lectures, in which See also:grammar and See also:criticism were subordinated to history, were largely attended by hearers from all parts of See also:Germany. He died at Leipzig on the 13th of See also:December 1832. He edited a number of classical authors: Pedo Albinovanus (1783), See also:Pindar and the Scholia (1792–1795), See also:Aristophanes (with others, 1794, &c.),
See also:British See also:protector-See also:ate.
See also:Euripides (1778—1788), See also:Apollonius Rhodius (1797), See also:Demosthenes De See also:pace (1799), See also:Plato (1813—1819), See also:Cicero (1795—1807), See also:Titus See also:Calpurnius Siculus (1803). He translated See also:Ferguson's Fall of the See also:Roman See also:Republic and See also:Goldsmith's History of See also:Greece, and added two volumes to See also:Bauer's See also:Thucydides. He also wrote on theological and See also:historical subjects, and edited philological and See also:bibliographical See also:journals.
He possessed a large and valuable library of 24,000 volumes.
See Nobbe, Vita C. D. Beckii (1837); and G. See also:Hermann, Opuscula, V. 312.
End of Article: BECK, CHRISTIAN DANIEL (1757-1832)
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