Ernst Friedrich Poppo Explained

Ernst Friedrich Poppo
Birth Date:	13 August 1794
Birth Place:	Guben
Nationality:	German
Occupation:	classical scholar

Ernst Friedrich Poppo (13 August 17946 November 1866), German classical scholar and schoolmaster, was born at Guben in Brandenburg. He studied at Leipzig.^[1]

In 1818 he was appointed director of the gymnasium at Frankfurt an der Oder, where he died on 6 November 1866, having resigned his post three years before.

Poppo was an extremely successful teacher and organizer, and in a few years doubled the number of pupils at the gymnasium. He is chiefly known, however, for his exhaustive and complete edition of Thucydides in four parts (11 vols., 1821-1840), containing:

1. A prolegomenon on Thucydides as an historian and on his language and style (English translation by George Burges, 1837), accompanied by historical and geographical essays^[2]
2. The text with scholia and critical notes
3. A commentary on the text and scholia
4. Indices and appendices.

For the ordinary student a smaller edition (1843–1851) was prepared; this edition was revised after the author's death by Johann Matthias Stahl (1875–1889).

References

• • Rudolf Schwarze in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (see ADB:Poppo, Ernst Friedrich in German Wikisource) and authorities there referred to.

Notes and References

1. Book: Sandys, John Edwin . 17 Feb 2011. A History of Classical Scholarship: The Eighteenth Century in Germany and the Nineteenth Century in Europe and the United States of America. 12 February 2022. Cambridge . Cambridge University Press . 159. 978-1-108-02708-3.
2. Book: Thomas, Joseph . 1 January 2013. The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. 12 February 2022. New York. Cosimo, Inc.. 1828. 978-1-616-40073-6.