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BUTTMANN, PHILIPP KARL (1764—1829)

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BUTTMANN, PHILIPP KARL (1764—1829) , See also:German philologist, was See also:born at See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main in 1764. He was educated in his native See also:town and at the university of See also:Gottingen. In 1789 he obtained an See also:appointment in the library at See also:Berlin, and for some years he edited Speners See also:Journal. In 1796 he became See also:professor at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin, a See also:post which he held for twelve years. In 18o6 he was admitted to the See also:Academy of Sciences, and in 1811 was made secretary of the Historico-Philological See also:Section. He died in 1829. Buttmann's writings gave a See also:great impetus to the scientific study of the See also:Greek See also:language. His Griechische Grammatik (1792) went through many See also:editions, and was translated into See also:English. His Lexilogus, a valuable study on some words of difficulty occurring principally in the poems of See also:Homer and See also:Hesiod, was published in 1818-1825, and was translated into English. Buttmann's other See also:works were Ausfuhrliche griechische Sprachlehre (2 vols., 1819—1827); Mythologus, a collection of essays (1828—1829); and editions of some classical authors, the most important being See also:Demosthenes in Midiam (1823) and the continuation of See also:Spalding's See also:Quintilian. Plant of See also:Ranunculus bulbosus, showing determinate inflorescence.

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