Johann August Nauck Explained

Johann August Nauck (18 September 1822  - 3 August 1892) was a German classical scholar and critic. His chief work was the Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (TrGF).

Biography

Nauck was born at Auerstedt in present-day Thuringia. He studied at the University of Halle as a student of Gottfried Bernhardy and Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier. In 1853 he became an adjunct under August Meineke at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. After a brief stint as an educator at the Grauen Kloster (1858), he relocated to St. Petersburg, where in 1869, he was appointed professor of Greek at the historical-philological institute.[1]

Nauck was one of the most distinguished textual critics of his day,[2] although, like PH Peerlkamp, he was fond of altering a text in accordance with what he thought the author must, or ought to, have written. Nauck was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1885.[3]

Published works

The most important of his writings and translations, all of which deal with Greek language and literature (especially the tragedians) are as follows:

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Further reading

Notes and References

  1. https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Nauck,_August ADB: Nauck, August
  2. http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz68095.html Nauck, August
  3. Web site: Johann August Nauck (1822 - 1892) . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705125527/https://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00002037 . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 5 July 2020.
  4. https://archive.org/details/euripidistragoed00euri Archive.org
  5. http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85-284117/ WorldCat Identities
  6. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81358522 WorldCat Title