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MEINEKE, JOHANN ALBRECHT See also:FRIEDRICH See also:AUGUST (1790-1870) , See also:German classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Soest in See also:Westphalia on the 8th of See also:December 1790. After holding educational posts at Jenkau and See also:Danzig, he was director of the Joachimsthal gymnasium in See also:Berlin from 1826 to 1856. He died at Berlin on the 12th of December 187o. He was distinguished in conjectural See also:criticism, the comic writers and Alexandrine poets being his favourite authors. His most important See also:works are: Graecorum comicorum fragmenta (1839-1857, the first See also:volume of which contains an See also:essay on the development of See also:Greek See also:comedy and an See also:account of its See also:chief representatives); See also:Aristophanes (186o); Analecta alexandrina (1843, containing the fragments of Rhianus, See also:Euphorion, See also:Alexander of See also:Aetolia, and See also:Parthenius) ; See also:Callimachus (1861) ; See also:Theocritus, See also:Sion, See also:Moschus (3rd ed., 1856) ; See also:Alciphron (1853) ; See also:Strabo (2nd ed.,1866) and Vindiciae strabonianae (1852) ; See also:Stobaeus (1855–1863) ; See also:Athenaeus (1858–1867). See monographs by F. See also:Ranke (1871), H. Sauppe (1872), and E. Forstemann in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, XXI. (1885) ; also See also:Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol.

(1908), iii. 117.

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