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BERNHARDY, GOTTFRIED (1800–1875)

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BERNHARDY, GOTTFRIED (1800–1875) , See also:German philologist and See also:literary historian, was See also:born on the loth of See also:March 1800, at Landsberg on the Wartia, in See also:Brandenburg. He was the son of Jewish parents in reduced circumstances. Two well-to-do uncles provided the means for his See also:education, and in 1811 he entered the Joachimsthal gymnasium at See also:Berlin. In 1817 he went to Berlin University to study See also:philology, where he had the See also:advantage of See also:hearing F. A See also:Wolf (then advanced in years), See also:August See also:Bockh and P. See also:Buttmann. In 1822 he took the degree of See also:doctor of See also:philosophy at Berlin, and in 1825 became extra-See also:ordinary See also:professor. In 1829 he succeeded C. Reisig as ordinary professor and director of the philological See also:seminary at See also:Halle, and in 1844 was appointed See also:chief librarian of the university. He died suddenly on the 14th of May 1875. The most important of Bernhardy's See also:works were his histories (or sketches) of See also:Greek and See also:Roman literature; Grundriss der romischen Litteratur (5th ed., 1872); Grundriss der griechischen Litteratur (pt. i., Introduction and See also:General View, 1836; pt. ii , Greek See also:Poetry, 1845; pt. iii., Greek See also:Prose Literature, was never published). A fifth edition of pts. i. and ii., by R.

Volkmann, began in 1892. Other works by Bernhardy are: Eratosthenica (1822); Wissenschaftliche Syntax der griechischen Sprache (1829, suppts. 18J4, 1862); Grundlinien zur Encyclopddie der Philologie (1832); the monumental edition of the See also:

Lexicon of Suidas (1834–1853); and an edition of F. A. Wolf's Kleine Schriften (1869). See Volkmann, G. Bernhardy (1887).

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