Georg Aenotheus Koch (15 November 1802,

Drebach Drebach is a municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany. It consists of the ''Ortsteile'' (divisions) Drebach, Grießbach, Im Grund, Scharfenstein, Spinnerei, Venusberg, Wilischthal and Wiltzsch.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 wel ...

) 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 and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

and

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoreti ...

. He studied

theology Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

and classical philology 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 ...

as a student of

Gottfried Hermann Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann (28 November 1772 – 31 December 1848) was a German classical scholar and philologist. He published his works under the name Gottfried Hermann or its Latin equivalent . Biography He was born in Leipzig. Entering ...

and Christian Daniel Beck. In 1825 he received his doctorate, and beginning in 1831 he taught classes at the

Thomasschule zu Leipzig St. Thomas School, Leipzig (german: Thomasschule zu Leipzig; la, Schola Thomana Lipsiensis) is a co-educational and public boarding school in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It was founded by the Augustinians in 1212 and is one of the oldest schools i ...

. In 1862 he was appointed school conrector.Koch, Georg Aenotheus
in:

Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB, german: Universal German Biography) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language. It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Aca ...

16 (1882), S. 378–379. In addition to writing numerous editions of classical works, he did extensive work in regards to the lexicography of individual authors, namely:

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...

Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates 15 October 7021 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: t ...

Marcus Velleius Paterculus Marcus Velleius Paterculus (; c. 19 BC – c. AD 31) was a Roman historian, soldier and senator. His Roman history, written in a highly rhetorical style, covered the period from the end of the Trojan War to AD 30, but is most useful for the per ...

and

Cornelius Nepos Cornelius Nepos (; c. 110 BC – c. 25 BC) was a Roman biographer. He was born at Hostilia, a village in Cisalpine Gaul not far from Verona. Biography Nepos's Cisalpine birth is attested by Ausonius, and Pliny the Elder calls him ''Padi a ...

. He also published a Latin

thesaurus A thesaurus (plural ''thesauri'' or ''thesauruses'') or synonym dictionary is a reference work for finding synonyms and sometimes antonyms of words. They are often used by writers to help find the best word to express an idea: Synonym diction ...

(

Gradus ad Parnassum The Latin phrase ''gradus ad Parnassum'' means "steps to Parnassus". It is sometimes shortened to ''gradus''. The name ''Parnassus'' was used to denote the loftiest part of a mountain range in central Greece, a few kilometres north of Delphi, of wh ...

), a pocket dictionary (over three editions) and a successful German-Latin geographical dictionary.

Published works

* ''Timaei Sophistae Lexicon vocum Platonicarum'', 1828; (edition of

Timaeus the Sophist Timaeus the Sophist ( grc-gre, Τίμαιος ὁ Σοφιστής) was a Greek philosopher who lived sometime between the 1st and 4th centuries. Nothing is known about his life. He is the supposed author of a ''Lexicon'' of Platonic words which is ...

). * ''Moeridis Atticistae Lexicon Atticum'', 1830; (edition of Aelius Moeris). * ''Deutsch-Lateinisches vergleichendes Wörterbuch der alten, mittleren und neuen Geographie'', 1835 – German-Latin comparative dictionary of ancient, medieval and modern geography. * ''Lateinisch-deutsches Handwoerterbuch'', 1854 – Latin-German pocket dictionary. * ''Cornelii Nepotis Vitae'', 1855; (edition of Cornelius Nepos). * ''Vollständiges Wörterbuch zum Geschichtswerke des M. Vellejus Paterculus'', 1857 – Complete dictionary for the historical works of Marcus Vellejus Paterculus. * ''Gradus ad Parnassum : sive Thesaurus Latini linguae poeticus et prosodiacus'', 1860 – Gradus ad Parnassum, Thesaurus of Latin language poetry and prose. * ''Vollständiges Wörterbuch zu den Gedichten des P. Vergilius Maro'', 1863 – Complete dictionary for the poems of Virgil. * ''Erklärendes Wörterbuch zu den Lebensbeschreibungen des Cornelius Nepos'', 1868 – Explanatory dictionary for the biographies of Cornelius Nepos. * ''Vollständiges Wörterbuch zu den gedichten des Q. Horatius Flaccus'', 1879 – Complete dictionary for the poems of Horace.Most widely held works by Georg Aenotheus Koch
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Koch, Georg Aenotheus 1802 births 1879 deaths People from Erzgebirgskreis People from the Electorate of Saxony German Lutherans German lexicographers German classical philologists German Latinists Leipzig University alumni 19th-century Lutherans 19th-century lexicographers