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WELCKER, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB (1784-1868)

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WELCKER, See also:FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB (1784-1868) , See also:German philologist and archaeologist, was See also:born at See also:Grunberg in the See also:grand duchy of See also:Hesse. Having studied classical See also:philology at the university of See also:Giessen, he was appointed (1803) See also:master in the high school, an See also:office which he combined with that of lecturer at the university. In 1806 he journeyed to See also:Italy, and was for more than a See also:year private See also:tutor at See also:Rome in the See also:family of Wilhelm von See also:Humboldt, who became his friend and correspondent. Welcker returned to Giessen in 1808, and resuming his school-teaching and university lectures was in the following year appointed the first See also:professor of See also:Greek literature and See also:archaeology at that or any German university. After serving as a volunteer in the See also:campaign of 1814 he went to See also:Copenhagen to edit the See also:posthumous papers of the Danish archaeologist Georg Zoega (1755-1809), and published his See also:biography, Zoegas Leben (Stutt. 1819). His liberalism in politics having brought him into conflict with the university authorities of Giessen, he exchanged that university for See also:Gottingen in 1816, and three years later received a See also:chair at the new university of See also:Bonn, where he established the See also:art museum and the library, of which he became the first librarian. In 1841-1843 he travelled in See also:Greece and Italy (cf. his Tagebuch, See also:Berlin, 1865), retired from the librarianship in 1854, and in 1861 from his professorship, but continued to reside at Bonn until his See also:death. Welcker was a See also:pioneer in the See also:field of archaeology, and was one of the first to insist, in opposition to the narrow methods of the older Hellenists, on the See also:necessity of co-ordinating the study of Greek art and See also:religion with philology. Besides See also:early See also:work on See also:Aristophanes, See also:Pindar, and See also:Sappho, whose See also:character he vindicated, he edited See also:Alcman (1815), Hipponax (1817), Theognis (1826) and the Theogony of See also:Hesiod (1865), and published a Sylloge epigrammalum Graecorum (Bonn, 1828). His Griechische Gatterlehre (3 vols., Gottingen, 1857-1862) may be regarded as the first scientific See also:treatise on Greek religion. Among his See also:works on Greek literature the See also:chief are See also:Die Aschyleische Trilogie (1824, 6), Der epische Zyklus See also:oder die Homerischen Gedichte (2 vols.

1835, 49), Die griechischen Tragodien mit Riicksicht auf den epischen Zyklus geordnet (3 vols., 1839--1841). His See also:

editions and biography of Zoega, his Zeitschrift See also:fur Geschichte and Auslegung der See also:alien Kunst (Gottingen, 1817, 8) and his Alte Denkmdler (5 vols., 1849-1864) contain his views on See also:ancient art. See Kekul6, Das Leben F. G. Welckers (See also:Leipzig, 188o) ; W. von Humboldts Briefe an Welcker (ed. R. See also:Haym, Berlin, 1859) ; J. E. See also:Sandys, See also:History of Classical Scholarship (vol. iii., pp. 216, 7, See also:Cam-See also:bridge, 1908).

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