Georg Heinrich Lünemann (3 September 1780, in

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

– 8 January 1830, in Göttingen) 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 ...

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 ...

. His younger brother, Johann Heinrich Christian Lünemann (1787–1827), was also a classical philologist. He studied classical philology at the

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, and in 1803 succeeded Georg Friedrich Grotefend as an instructor of Greek and Latin at the gymnasium in Göttingen. He is best known for his revised editions of

Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller (22 March 1735, in Ihlow – 5 July 1803, in Brieg) was a German classical philologist and lexicographer. From 1757 he studied theology and classical philology at the University of Leipzig, and following graduat ...

's Latin dictionaries. He also published numerous editions of classical authors for classroom purposes; its authors including:

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(1818),

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(1818), Phaedrus with

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and Dionysius Cato (1823),

Sallust Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (; 86 – ), was a Roman historian and politician from an Italian plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became during the 50s BC a partisan o ...

(1825),

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(1825) and

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(1827).

Selected works

* ''Descriptio Caucasi gentiumque Caucasiarum ex Strabone, comparatis scriptoribus recentioribus'', 1803. * ''Lateinisch-deutsches und deutsch-lateinisches Handlexikon'' (5th edition, 1822, 6th edition 1826 / initial author: Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller) – Latin-German and German-Latin "hand lexicon". * ''Imman. Joh. Gerh. Scheller's kleines lateinisches Wörterbuch'' (5th edition, 1816) – Small Latin dictionary. * ''Epistolae Ad Atticum, Ad Quintum Fratrem, Et Quae Vulgo Ad Familiares Dicuntur'' (edition of

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...

) 4 volumes, 1820-22. * ''M. Fabii Quintiliani de institutione oratoria libri duodecim'' (edition of

Quintilian Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (; 35 – 100 AD) was a Roman educator and rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quintilia ...

), 1826. Also, he made contributions to the index of

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...

Christiaan Hendrik Persoon Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a German mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy. Early life Persoon was born in South Africa at the Cape of Good Hope, the third child of an immig ...

's ''Synopsis methodica fungorum''.Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi
by Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lunemann, Georg Heinrich 1780 births 1830 deaths Writers from Göttingen University of Göttingen alumni German classical philologists German lexicographers German Latinists 19th-century lexicographers