Georg Goetz (3 November 1849, in Gompertshausen – 1 January 1932, in

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...

) was a German classical philologist, known for his scholarly treatment of

Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus (; c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the gen ...

and

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. From 1870 to 1873 he studied at the

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, where his influences included

Friedrich Ritschl Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (6 April 1806 – 9 November 1876) was a German scholar best known for his studies of Plautus. Biography Ritschl was born in Großvargula, in present-day Thuringia. His family, in which culture and poverty were hereditar ...

. In 1873 he received his doctorate with the dissertation ''De temporibus Ecclesiazuson Aristophanis'', and following graduation, worked as a tutor in St. Petersburg. In 1877 he obtained his

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for classical philology at Leipzig, and two years later, became an associate professor at the

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

. From 1880 to 1924 he was a full professor of classical philology at Jena, serving as

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on three separate occasions (1890/91, 1902 and 1910/11). Gravesite of Georg Goetz at the Nordfriedhof in Jena

Published works

He was co-editor of a four volume work on the comedies of

(''T. Macci Plauti Comoediae''), and made major contributions to the ''Corpus glossariorum Latinorum'' and to Pauly's '' Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft''. Other principal written works by Goetz include: * ''Dittographien im Plautustexte nebst methodischen Folgerungen. Eine kritische Untersuchung''. In: Acta societatis philologae Lipsiensis. Band 6 (1877), S. 233–328 – Dittography in Plautine text together with methodological implications. A critical examination. * ''Analecta Plautina''. Leipzig 1877 (with Fritz Schöll and

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). * ''Glossarium Terentianum ex recensione''. Jena 1885. * ''De Astrabae Plautinae fragmentis commentatio''. Jena 1893. * ''M. Terenti Varronis rerum rusticarum libri tres, post Henricum Keil iterum'', 1912 (post Heinrich Keil; edition of Marcus Terentius Varro). * ''M. Porci Catonis De agri cultura liber'', 1922 (edition of

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).Goetz, Georg (1849-1932)
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