Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Lübbert (10 June 1830, Zweybrodt near Breslau – 31 July 1889,

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) 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 ...

known for his studies of

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and

syntax In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure ( constituency) ...

as well as for his numerous published works involving the Greek

lyric poet Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. It is not equivalent to song lyrics, though song lyrics are often in the lyric mode, and it is also ''not'' equi ...

Pindar Pindar (; grc-gre, Πίνδαρος , ; la, Pindarus; ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is ...

. He studied at the Universities of Breslau,

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and

, obtaining his habilitation in 1859 at Breslau. In 1865 he became an associate professor at the

University of Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von ...

, where in 1871, he attained a full professorship. Later on, he served as a professor at the Universities of

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(from 1874) and Bonn (from 1881).

Selected published works

* "De elocutione Pindari", 1853 (dissertation thesis). * "Commentationes pontificales", 1859 (habilitation thesis). * ''Beiträge zur Tempus- und Moduslehre des älteren Lateins'', (Contributions to the tense and mode of teaching older Latin); 2 parts, Breslau 1867–1870 (Grammatical studies 1–2). ** Part 1: ''Der Conjunctiv Perfecti und das Futurum exactum im älteren Latein''. Breslau 1867. (The perfect

subjunctive The subjunctive (also known as conjunctive in some languages) is a grammatical mood, a feature of the utterance that indicates the speaker's attitude towards it. Subjunctive forms of verbs are typically used to express various states of unreality ...

and futurum exactum in the older Latin). ** Part 2: ''Die Syntax von Quom und die Entwickelung der relativen Tempora im älteren Latein. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der lateinischen Sprache''. Breslau 1870. (The syntax of quom and the evolution of the relative tenses in older Latin; A contribution to the history of the

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). * "Commentationes syntacticae", 1871. * "De Pindari carminibus Aegineticis quattuor postremis", 1879. * "De Pindari carmine Pythico secundo", 1880. * ''Alexandria unter Ptolemaeus Philadelphus und Euergetes'', 1880 – (

Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...

under Ptolemaeus Philadelphus and

Euergetes ( grc, Εὐεργέτης, ), meaning "the Benefactor" (from , "good", + , "doer, worker"), was an epithet, an honoring title, given to various benefactors. Euergetism (literally "doing good deeds") was the practice of high-status and wealthy in ...

). * "Diatriba in Pindari locum de Adrasti regno Sicyonio", 1884. * "De Pindari carminibus dramaticis tragicis eorumque cum epiniciis cognatione", 1884. * "De priscae cuiusdam epiniciorum formae apud Pindarum vestigiis", 1885. * "De poesis Pindaricae in archa et sphragide componendis arte", 1885. * "De Pindari poetae et Hieronis regis amicitiae primordiis et progressu", 1886. * "Commentatio de Pindaricorum carminum compositione ex Nomorum historia illustranda", 1887. * "Commentatio de Pindaro dogmatis de migratione animarum cultore", 1887. * "De Pindari studiis chronologicis", 1887. * "De Pindaro theologiae Orphicae censore", 1888.Wikisource
bibliography of Eduard Lübbert

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lubbert, Eduard 1830 births 1889 deaths University of Breslau alumni Academic staff of the University of Giessen Academic staff of the University of Bonn Academic staff of the University of Kiel German classical philologists