Georg Heinrich Bode (1802—1846) was a German classical

philologist 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 ...

and translator. From 1820, he studied philology at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

. He published the three-volume ''Geschichte der hellenischen Dichtkunst'' (1838).

Works

* ''Orpheus poetarum Graecorum antiquissimus.'' Göttingen, 1824. * ''Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini tres Romae nuper reperti'', 2 vols. Celle, 1834. * ''Geschichte der Hellenischen Dichtkunst'', 3 vols. in 5 parts. Leipzig, 1838–1840. * ''Quaestiones de antiquissima carminum Orphicorum aetate patria atque indole''. Göttingen, 1838.

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Geschichte der hellenischen Dichtkunst
1802 births 1846 deaths 19th-century philologists 19th-century German translators {{Germany-academic-bio-stub