Hermann Bonitz (29 July 181425 July 1888), German scholar, was born at
Langensalza
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in
Prussian Saxony
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.
Having studied at the
University of Leipzig
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under
G. Hermann and at
Berlin
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under
Böckh and
Lachmann, he became successively teacher at the
Blochmann-Institut in
Dresden
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(1836), ''Oberlehrer'' at the
Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium (1838) and the
Graues Kloster (1840) in Berlin, professor at the gymnasium at
Stettin (Szczecin) (1842), professor at the
University of Vienna (1849), member of the
Imperial Academy of Sciences (1854), member of the council of education (1864), and director of the
Graues-Kloster-Gymnasium (1867). He retired in 1888, and died in that year at Berlin.
He took great interest in higher education, and was chiefly responsible for the system of teaching and examination in use in the high schools of
Prussia after 1882. But it is as a commentator on
Plato and
Aristotle that he is best known outside Germany. His most important works in this connection are:
*''Disputationes Platonicae Duae'' (1837); ''Platonische Studien'' (3rd edition, 1886).
*''Observationes Criticae in Aristotelis Libros Metaphysicos'' (1842).
*''Observationes Criticae in Aristotelis quae feruntur Magna Moralia et Ethica Eudemia'' (1844).
*''Alexandri Aphrodisiensis Commentarius in Libros Metaphysicos Aristotelis'' (1847).
*''Aristotelis Metaphysica'' (1848–1849).
*''Über die Kategorien des A.'' (1853).
*''Aristotelische Studien'' (1862–1867).
*''Index Aristotelicus'' (1870).
Other works:
*''Über den Ursprung der homerischen Gedichte'' (5th edition, 1881).
*''Beiträge zur Erklärung des Thukydides'' (1854), ''des Sophokles'' (1856–57).
He also wrote largely on classical and educational subjects, mainly for the ''
Zeitschrift für die österreichischen Gymnasien''.
A full list of his writings is given in the obituary notice by
Theodor Gomperz in the ''Biographisches Jahrbuch fr Altertumskunde'' (1890).
References
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1814 births
1888 deaths
People from Bad Langensalza
German classical scholars
Academic staff of the University of Vienna
Leipzig University alumni
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
People from the Province of Saxony
German scholars of ancient Greek philosophy
Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities