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SCHWEIGHAUSER, JOHANN (1742–1830)

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SCHWEIGHAUSER, JOHANN (1742–1830) , See also:German classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Strassburg on the 25th of See also:June 1742. From an See also:early See also:age his favourite subjects were See also:philosophy (especially Scottish moral philosophy as represented by See also:Hutchinson and See also:Ferguson) and See also:Oriental See also:languages; See also:Greek and Latin he took up later, and although he owes his reputation to his See also:editions of Greek authors, he was always diffident as to his classical attainments. After visiting See also:Paris, See also:London and the See also:principal cities of See also:Germany, he became assistant See also:professor of philosophy (1770) at Strassburg. When the See also:French Revolution See also:broke out, he was banished; in 1794 he returned, and after the reorganization of the See also:Academy in 1809 was appointed professor of Greek. He resigned his See also:post in 1824, and died on the 19th of See also:January 1830. His son, JoHANN GOTTFRIED (1776-1844), was also a distinguished scholar and archaeologist, See also:joint-author with M. Golbery of Antiquitds de l' See also:Alsace (1828). Schweighauser's first important See also:work was his edition of See also:Appian (1785), with Latin See also:translation and commentary, and an See also:account of the See also:MSS. On See also:Brunck's recommendation, he had collated an See also:Augsburg MS. of Appian for See also:Samuel See also:Musgrave, who was preparing an edition of that author, and after Musgrave's See also:death he See also:felt it a See also:duty to See also:complete it. His See also:Polybius, with translation, notes and See also:special See also:lexicon, appeared in 1789—1795. But his See also:chief work is his edition of See also:Athenaeus (1801—1807), in fourteen volumes, one of the Bipont editions. His See also:Herodotus (1816; lexicon, 1824) is less successful; he depends too much on earlier editions and inferior MSS., and lacks the finer scholarship necessary in dealing with such an author.

Mention may also be made of his Encheiridion of See also:

Epictetus and Tabula of See also:Cebes j1798), which appeared at the See also:time when the doctrines of the See also:Stoics were fashionable; the letters of See also:Seneca to See also:Lucilius (1809); corrections and notes to SuIdas (1789); some moral philosophy essays. His See also:minor See also:works are collected in his Opuscula academica (18o6). See monographs by J. G. Dahler, C. L. See also:Cuvier, F. J. Stievenart (all 1830), L. Spach (1868), Ch. Rabany (1884), the two last containing an account of both See also:father and son.

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