Anton Westermann (18 June 1806,

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

– 24 November 1869, Leipzig) was a German

classical philologist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and ot ...

. From 1825 to 1830, he studied

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

, where in 1833 he became an associate professor of classical philology. From 1834 to 1865, he was a full professor of

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

and

Roman literature Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language. The beginning of formal Latin literature dates to 240 BC, when the first stage play in Latin was performed in Rome. Latin literature ...

at Leipzig. On four separate occasions he was dean to the faculty of philosophy.Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
Biographical sketch He is known for his edition and critical examination of

Demosthenes Demosthenes (; el, Δημοσθένης, translit=Dēmosthénēs; ; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual pr ...

, for his edition of works by ancient authors such as

Plutarch Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ''Ploútarchos''; ; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for hi ...

Lysias Lysias (; el, Λυσίας; c. 445 – c. 380 BC) was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace i ...

, Callistratus and

Philostratus Philostratus or Lucius Flavius Philostratus (; grc-gre, Φιλόστρατος ; c. 170 – 247/250 AD), called "the Athenian", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period. His father was a minor sophist of the same name. He was born probab ...

, and for his scholarly treatment of Greek mythography ("''Mythographoi''"), biography ("''Biographoi''") and paradoxography ("''Paradoxographoi''"). His edition of

Heraclitus Heraclitus of Ephesus (; grc-gre, Ἡράκλειτος , "Glory of Hera"; ) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. Little is known of Heraclitus's life. He wrot ...

' epistles, ''Heracliti Epistolae quae feruntur'' (1857), later appeared in Rudolf Hercher's ''Epistolographi Graeci''.

Published works

* ''Quaestiones Demosthenicae'', 4 volumes, Leipzig 1830–37. * ''Plutarchi Vitae decem oratorum'',

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and Leipzig 1833. * ''Geschichte der Beredtsamkeit in Griechenland und Rom'', 2 volumes, Leipzig 1833-1835 – History of eloquence in Greece and Rome. * ''Paradoxographoi, scriptores rerum mirabilium graeci'',

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1839. * ''Stephani Byzantii Ethnikon quae supersunt'', 1839; (edition of Stephanus of Byzantium). * ''Diogenis Laertii De clarorum philosophorum : vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus libri decem'', 1842; (part of series: Bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum editore A. Firmin-Didot, with other authors). * ''Mythographoi. Scriptores poeticae historiae Graeci'', Braunschweig 1843. * ''Biographoi. Vitarum scriptores Graeci minores'', Braunschweig 1845. * ''Philostratorum et Callistrati opera'', 1849 (with other authors) * ''Ausgewählte Reden des Demosthenes'', 2 volumes, Leipzig 1850-1851 – Selected speeches of Demosthenes. * ''Die Modalität der Athenischen Gesetzgebung, geprüft an den in die Rede des Demosthenes gegen Timokrates'' §§ 20 - 23, 27, 33, 39, 40, 59 (''Untersuchungen über die in die Attischen Redner eingelegten Urkunden'', Tl. 1), Leipzig 1850 – The modality of Athenian legislation examined in the speech of Demosthenes against Timocrates. Investigations on proceedings in the

Attic orators The ten Attic orators were considered the greatest orators and logographers of the classical era (5th–4th century BC). They are included in the "Canon of Ten", which probably originated in Alexandria. A.E. Douglas has argued, however, that it w ...

' documents. * ''Lysiae Orationes : recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Carolus Hude'', 1854.WorldCat Identities
Most widely held works by Anton Westermann

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Westermann, Anton 1806 births 1869 deaths German classical philologists Leipzig University alumni Academic staff of Leipzig University