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CURTIUS, See also:ERNST (1814-1896) , See also:German archaeologist and historian, was See also:born at See also:Lubeck on the 2nd of See also:September 1814. On completing his university studies he was chosen by C. A. See also:Brandis to accompany him on a See also:journey to See also:Greece for the See also:prosecution of archaeological researches. Curtius then became Otfried See also:Miller's See also:companion in his exploration of the Peloponnese, and on Miiller's See also:death in 184o returned to See also:Germany. In 1844 he became an extraordinary See also:professor at the university of See also:Berlin, and in the same See also:year was appointed See also:tutor to See also:Prince See also:Frederick See also:William (afterwards the See also:Emperor Frederick III.)—a See also:post which he held till 185o. After holding a professorship at See also:Gottingen and undertaking a further journey to Greece in 1862, Curtius was appointed (in 1863) See also:ordinary professor at Berlin. In 1874 he was sent to See also:Athens by the German See also:government, and concluded an agreement by which the excavations at See also:Olympia (q.v.) were entrusted exclusively to Germany. Curtius died at Berlin on the Iith of See also:July 1896. His best-known See also:work is his See also:History of Greece (18J7-1867, 6th ed. 1887-1888; Eng. trans. by A. W.

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Ward, 1868-1873). It presented in an attractive See also:style what were then the latest results of scholarly See also:research, but was criticized as wanting in erudition. It is now superseded (see GREECE: History, See also:Ancient, § Bibliography). His other writings are chiefly archaeological. The most important are: See also:Die Akropolis von Athen (1844) ; See also:Naxos (1846) ; Peloponnesos, eine historisch-geographische Beschreibung der Halbinsel (1851); Olympia (1852); Die Ionier vor der ionischen bVanderung (1855); Attische Studien (1862-'865); Ephesos (1874); Die Ausgrabungen zu Olympia (1877, &c.); Olympia and Umgegend (edited by Curtius and F. See also:Adler, 1882); Olympia. Die Ergebnisse der von dem deutschen Reich veranstalteten Ausgrabung (with F. Adler, 1890-1898); Die Stadtgeschichte von Athen (1891); Gesammelte Abhandlungen (1894). His collected speeches and lectures were published under the See also:title of Altertum and Gegenwart (5th ed., 1903 See also:foil.), to which a third See also:volume was added under the title of Unter drei Kaisern (2nd ed., 1895). A full See also:list of his writings will be found in L. Gurlitt, Erinnerungen an Ernst Curtius (Berlin, 1902); see also See also:article by O. See also:Kern in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, xlvii.

(1903), to which may be added Ernst Curtius. Ein Lebensbild in Briefen, by F. Curtius (1903); T. See also:

Hodgkin, Ernest Curtius (1905). His See also:brother, GEORG CURTIUS (1820-1885), philologist, was born at Lubeck on the 16th of See also:April 1820. After an See also:education at See also:Bonn and Berlin he was for three years a schoolmaster in See also:Dresden, until (in 1845) he returned to Berlin University as privat-docent. In 1849 he was placed in See also:charge of the Philological See also:Seminary at See also:Prague, and two years later was appointed professor of classical See also:philology in Prague University. In 1854 he removed from Prague to a similar See also:appointment at See also:Kiel, and again in 1862 from Kiel to See also:Leipzig. He died at See also:Hermsdorf on the 12th of See also:August 1885. His philological theories exercised a widespread See also:influence. The more important of his publications are: Die Sprachvergleichung in ihrem Verhaltniss zur dassischen Philologie (1845; Eng. trans. by F. H.

Trithen, 1851); Sprachvergleichende Beitrage zur griechischen and lateinischen Grammatik (1846); Grundzuge der griechischen Etymologie (1858-1862, 5th ed. 1879); Das Verbum der griechischen Sprache (1873). The last two See also:

works have been translated into See also:English by A. S. See also:Wilkins and E. B. See also:England. From 1878 till his death Curtius was See also:general editor of the Leipziger Studien zur classischen Philologie. His Griechische Schulgrammatik, first published in 1852, has passed through more than twenty See also:editions, and has been edited in English. In his last work, Zur Kritik der neuesten Sprachforschung (1885), he attacks the views of the "new" school of philology. Opuscula of Georg Curtius were edited after his death by E. Windisch (Kleine Schriften von E.

C., 1886-1887). For further See also:

information consult articles by R. Meister in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, xlvii. (19o3), and by E. Windisch in C. See also:Bursian's Biographisches Jahrbuch See also:fur Alterthumskunde (1886).

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