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MATTHIAE, AUGUST HEINRICH (1769-1835)

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MATTHIAE, See also:AUGUST HEINRICH (1769-1835) , See also:German classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Gottingen, on the 25th of See also:December 1769, and educated at the university. He then spent some years as a See also:tutor in See also:Amsterdam. In 1798 he returned to See also:Germany, and in 18oz was appointed director of the Friedrichsgymnasium at See also:Altenburg, which See also:post he held till his See also:death, on the 6th of See also:January 1835. Of his numerous important See also:works the best-known are his See also:Greek See also:Grammar (3rd ed., 1835), translated into See also:English by E. V. See also:Blomfield (5th ed., by J. Kenrick, 1832), his edition of See also:Euripides (9 vols., 1813-1829), Grundriss der Geschichte der griechischen and rOmischen Litteratur (3rd ed., 1834, Eng. trans., See also:Oxford, 1841) Lehrbuch See also:fur den ersten Unterricht in der Philosophie (3rd ed., 1833), Encyklopddie and Methodologie der Philologie (1835). His See also:Life was written by his son Constantin (1845). His See also:brother, See also:FRIEDRICH See also:CHRISTIAN MATTHIAE (1763-1822), See also:rector of the See also:Frankfort gymnasium, published valuable See also:editions of See also:Seneca's Letters, See also:Aratus, and See also:Dionysius Periegetes.

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