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BEKKER, AUGUST IMMANUEL (1785–1871)

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BEKKER, See also:
AUGUST (originally Sextilis)
AUGUST IMMANUEL (1785–1871) , See also:

German philologist and critic, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 21st of May 1785. He completed his classical See also:

EDUCATION

education at the university of See also:

Halle under F. A. See also:

Wolf, who considered him as his most promising See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil. In 1810 he was appointed See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy in the university of See also:

Berlin. For several years, between 1810 and 1821, he travelled in See also:

France, See also:

Italy, See also:

England and parts of See also:

Germany, examining classical See also:

MANUSCRIPTS

manuscripts and gathering materials for his See also:

GREAT

great editorial labours. He died at Berlin on the 7th of See also:

JUNE

June 1871. Some detached fruits of his researches were given in the Anecdota Graeca, 1814-1821; but the full result of his unwearied See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry and ability is to be found in the enormous See also:

ARRAY (from the O. Fr. areyer, Med. Lat. arredare, to get ready)

array of classical authors edited by him. Anything like a See also:

COMPLETE

complete See also:

list of his See also:

WORKS

works would occupy too much space, but it may be said that his industry extended to nearly the whole of See also:

Greek literature with the exception of the tragedians and lyric poets. His best known See also:

EDITIONS

editions are: See also:

PLATO

Plato (1816–1823), Oratores Attici (1823–1824), See also:

Aristotle (1831–1836), See also:

Aristophanes (1829), and twenty-five volumes of the Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae. The only Latin authors edited by him were See also:

LIVY [Thus L1v1us] (59 B.C.—A.D: 17)

Livy (1829–183o) and See also:

Tacitus (1831). Bekker confined himself entirely to textual recension and See also:

criticism, in which he relied solely upon the See also:

MSS

MSS., and contributed little to the See also:

EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension of See also:

general scholarship.

See Sauppe, Zur Erinnerung an See also:

MEINEKE, JOHANN ALBRECHT FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1790-1870)

Meineke 'und Bekker (1872) ; See also:

HAUPT, MORITZ (1808—1874)

Haupt, " Gedachtnisrede auf Meineke und Bekker," in his Opuscula, iii.; E. I. Bekker, " Zur Erinnerung an meinen Vater," in the Preussisches Jahrbuch, See also:

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