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:

• Fragments of Aristophanes of Byzantium (1848).
• Euripidis Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum fragmenta; ex recensione Augusti Nauckii, (1854).^[4] (Euripides, tragedies and fragments)
• Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1856, last edition, 1983), His chief work - it was intended as a counterpart to Meineke's "comedy fragments", ("Fragmenta comicorum graecorum").^[2]
• Revised edition of Schneidewin's annotated Sophocles (1856, etc.)
• Porphyrius of Tyre (1860, 2nd ed., 1886); "Porphyrii philosophi Platonici opuscula selecta".
• Lexikon Vindobonense (1867).^[5]
• texts of Homer, Odyssey (1874) and Iliad (1877–1879); published as "Homerica carmina" (volume I. Ilias; volume II. Odyssea).^[6]
• Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica (1884).

External links

• Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta recensuit Augustus Nauck, Lipsiae sumptibus et typis B. G. Teubneri, 1856.
  • Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta recensuit Augustus Nauck, editio secunda, Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1889.

Further reading

• Memoir by T. Zielinski, in Bursian's Biographisches Jahrbuch (1894), and J.E. Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, iii. (1908), pp. 149–152.

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