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BONITZ, HERMANN (1814–1888)

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BONITZ, See also:HERMANN (1814–1888) , See also:German See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Langensalza in See also:Saxony on the 29th of See also:July 1814. Having studied at See also:Leipzig under G. Hermann and at See also:Berlin under BBckh and See also:Lachmann, he became successively teacher at the Blochmann See also:institute in See also:Dresden (1836), Oberlehrer at the See also:Friedrich-Wilhelms gymnasium (1838) and the Graues Kloster (184o) in Berlin, See also:professor at the gymnasium at See also:Stettin (1842), professor at the university of See also:Vienna (1849), member of the imperial See also:academy (1854), member of the See also:council of See also:education (1864), and director of the Graues Kloster gymnasium (1867). He retired in 1888, and died on the 25th of July in that See also:year at Berlin. He took See also:great See also:interest in higher education, and was chiefly responsible for the See also:system of teaching and examination in use in the high See also:schools of See also:Prussia after 1882. But it is as a commentator on See also:Plato and See also:Aristotle that he is best known outside See also:Germany. His most important See also:works in this connexion are: Disputaliones Platonicae Duae (1837); Platonische Studien (3rd ed., 1886); Observations Criticae in Aristotelis Libros Metaphysicos (1842); Observations Criticae in Aristotelis quae ferunlur Magna Moralia et Ethica Eudemia (1844); Alexandri Aphrodisiensis Commentarius in Libros Metaphysicos Aristotelis (1847); Aristotelis Metaphysica (1848–1849); Uber See also:die Kalegorien See also:des A. (1853); Aristotelische Studien (1862–1867); See also:Index Aristotelicus (187o). Other works: Ober den Ursprung der homerischen Gedichte (5th ed., 1881) ; Beitrage zur Erklarung des Thukydides (1854), des Sophokles (1856-1857). He also wrote largely on classical and educational subjects, mainly for the Zeitschrift See also:fur die osterreichischen Gymnasien. A full See also:list of his writings is given in the obituary See also:notice by T. Gompertz in the Biographisches Jahrbuch fur Altertumskunde (189o).

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