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Wolf, however, pursued his studies in the university library, from which he borrowed with his old avidity. During 1779–1783 Wolf was a schoolmaster, first at See also:

ILFELD

Ilfeld, then at See also:

OSTERODE

Osterode. His success as a teacher was striking, and he found time to publish an edition of the See also:

SYMPOSIUM (Gr. avyr6cnov, a drinking party, from avµirivecv, to drink together, abv, with, and 7rivecv, to drink, root 7ro, cf. Lat. potare, to drink, poculum, cup)

Symposium of See also:

PLATO

Plato, which excited See also:

NOTICE

notice, and led to his promotion (1783) to a See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair in the Prussian university of See also:

Halle. The moment was a See also:

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical one in the See also:

HISTORY

history of See also:

EDUCATION

education. The See also:

LITERARY

literary impulse of the See also:

RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance was almost spent; scholarship had become dry and trivial. A new school, that of See also:

Locke and See also:

Rousseau, sought to make teaching more See also:

MODERN

modern and more human, but at the See also:

SACRIFICE (from Lat. sacrificium; sacer, holy, and facere, to make)

sacrifice of See also:

MENTAL

mental discipline and scientific aim. Wolf was eager to throw himself into the contest on the See also:

side of antiquity. In Halle (1783-1807), by the force of his will and the enlightened aid of the ministers of See also:

Frederick the See also:

GREAT

Great, he was able to carryout his See also:

long-cherished ideas and found the See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science of philology. Wolf defined philology broadly as `l know-ledge of human nature as exhibited in antiquity." The See also:

MATTER

matter of such a science, he held, must be sought in the history and education of some highly cultivated nation, to be studied in written remains, See also:

WORKS

works of See also:

art, and whatever else bears the See also:

STAMP (from " to stamp," to strike or tread heavily, hence to impress, O. Eng. stempen, Du. stampen, Ger. stampfen, whence, O. Fr. estamper, mod. etamper)

stamp of See also:

NATIONAL

national thought or skill. It has therefore to do with both history and See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, but primarily as a science of See also:

INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation, in which See also:

HISTORICAL

historical facts and linguistic facts take their See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place i11 an organic whole. Such was the ideal which Wolf had in his mind when he established the philological seminarium at Halle. Wolf's writings make little show in a library, and were always subordinate to his teaching.

During his time at Halle he published his commentary on the See also:

LEPTINES

Leptines of See also:

DEMOSTHENES

Demosthenes (1789)—which suggested to his See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil, Aug. Boeckh, the Public See also:

ECONOMY

Economy of See also:

Athens—and a little later the celebrated Prolegomena to Homer (1795). This See also:

BOOK

book, the See also:

WORK

work with which his name is chiefly associated, was thrown off in See also:

COMPARATIVE

comparative haste to meet an immediate need. It has all the merits of a great piece of oral teaching—command of method, suggestiveness, breadth of view. The reader does not feel that he has to do with a theory, but with great ideas, which are See also:

LEFT

left to See also:

bear See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit in his mind (see HOMER). The publication led to an unpleasant polemic with Heyne, who absurdly accused him of reproducing what he had heard from him at Gottingen. The Halle professorship ended tragically, and with it the happy and productive See also:

period of Wolf's life. He was swept away, and his university with him, by the See also:

DELUGE, THE (through the Fr. from Lat. diluvium, flood, diluere, to wash away)

deluge of the French invasion. A painful gloom oppressed his remaining years (1807–1824), which he spent at See also:

Berlin. He became so fractious and intolerant as to alienate some of his warmest See also:

friends. He gained a place in the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of education, through the exertions of W. von See also:

Humboldt. When this became unendurable, he once more took a professorship.

But he no longer taught with his old success; and he wrote very little. His most finished work, the Darstellung der Alterthumswissenschaft, though published at Berlin (1807), belongs essentially to the Halle time. At length his See also:

HEALTH

health gave way. He was advised to try the See also:

south of See also:

France. He got as far as See also:

MARSEILLES

Marseilles, and, dying there on the 8th of August 1824, was laid in the classic See also:

SOIL

soil of that See also:

ancient Hellenic See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city. See also:

Mark See also:

PATTISON, MARK (1813-1884)

Pattison wrote an admirable See also:

SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch of Wolf's life and work in the See also:

North See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review of See also:

JUNE

June 1865, reproduced in his Essays (1889); see also J. E. See also:

Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. iii. (1908), pp. 51-60. Wolf's Kleine Schriften were edited by G.

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