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HEYNE, CHRISTIAN GOTTLOB (1729–1812)
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See also:HEYNE, See also:CHRISTIAN GOTTLOB (1729–1812) , See also:German classical See also:scholar and archaeologist, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:September 1729, at See also:Chemnitz in See also:Saxony. His See also:father was a poor See also:weaver, and the expenses of his See also:early See also:education were paid by one of his godfathers. In 1748 he entered the university of See also:Leipzig, where he was frequently in want of the necessaries of See also:life. His See also:distress had almost amounted to despair, when he procured the situation of See also:tutor in the See also:family of a See also:French See also:merchant in Leipzig, which enabled him to continue his studies. After he had completed his university course, he was for many years in very straitened circumstances. An See also:elegy written by him in Latin on the'See also:death of a friend attracted the See also:attention of See also:Count von See also:Bruhl, tie See also:prime See also:minister, who expressed a See also:desire to see the author. Accordingly, in See also:April 1752, Heyne journeyed to See also:Dresden, believing that his See also:fortune was made. He was well received; promised a secretaryship and a See also:good See also:salary, but nothing came of it. Another See also:period of want followed, and it was only by persistent solicitation that Heyne was able to obtain the See also:post of under-clerk in the count's library, with a salary of some-what, less than twenty pounds See also:sterling. He increased his scanty See also:pittance by See also:translation; in addition to some French novels, he rendered into German the.Chaeaeas and Callirrkae of See also:Chariton, the. See also:Greek See also:romance writer. He published his first edition of See also:Tibullus in 1755, and in 1756 his See also:Epictetus. In the latter See also:year the Seven Years' See also:War See also:broke out, and Heyne was once more in a See also:state of destitution. In 1757 he was offered a tutorship in the See also:household of Fran von Schonberg, where he met his future wife. In See also:January 1.757 he accompanied his See also:pupil to the university of See also:Wittenberg, from which he was driven in 176o by the Prussian See also:cannon. The See also:bombardment of Dresden (to which See also:city he had meanwhile returned) on the 18th of See also:July 1760, destroyed all his possessions, including an almost finished edition of See also:Lucian, based on a valuable codex of the Dresden Library. In the summer of 1761, although still without any fixed-income, he married, and for some See also:time he found it necessary to devote himself to the duties of See also:land-steward to the See also:Baron von Loben in See also:Lusatia. At the end of 1762, however, he was enabled to return to; Dresden, where he was commissioned by P. D. Lippert to prepare the Latin See also:text of the third See also:volume of his Dactyliolheca (an See also:account ,of a; collection of gems). On the death of Johann See also:Matthias. See also:Gesner at See also:Gottingen in 1761, the vacant See also:chair was refused first by See also:Ernesti and then by Ruhnken, who persuaded Munchhausen, the Hanoverian minister and See also:principal See also:curator of the university; to bestow it on Heyne' (1763). His emoluments were gradually augmented, and his growing celebrity, brought him most advantageous offers from other German governments, which he . persistently refused. After a See also:long and useful career, he died on the 14th of July 1812. Unlike Gottfried See also:Hermann, Heyne regarded the study of See also:grammar and See also:language only as the means to an end, not as the See also:chief See also:object of See also:philology. But, although not a See also:critical scholar, he was the first to• See also:attempt a scientific treatment of Greek See also:mythology, and he gave an undoubted impulse to philological studies. Of Heyne's numerous writings, the following may be mentioned. See also:Editions, with copious commentaries, of Tibullus (ed. E. C. Wunderlich, 1817), See also:Virgil (ed. G. P. See also:Wagner, 183o-1841), See also:Pindar (3rd ed. by G. H. Schafer, 1817), See also:Apollodorus, Bibliotheca See also:Greece (1803), See also:Homer, Iliad (1802); Opuscula academica (1785-1812), containing more than a See also:hundred academical See also:dissertations, of which the most valuable are those See also:relating to the colonies of Greece and the antiquities of See also:Etruscan See also:art and See also:history. His Antiquarische Aufsatze (1778-1779) is a valuable collection of essays connected with the history of See also:ancient art. His contributions to the Gottingische gelehrte Anzeigen are said to have been between 7000 and 8000 in number. See See also:biography by A. H. See also:Heeren (1813) which forms the basis of the interesting See also:essay by See also:Carlyle (Misc. Essays, ii.); H. Sauppe, Gottinger Professoren (1872) C. See also:Bursian in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, xii. ; J,. E. See also:Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol: iii. 36-44. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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