Theodor Heinrich Gottfried Keil (25 May 1822, Gressow – 27 August 1894,

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) 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 ...

. He was a son-in-law to educator Friedrich August Eckstein (1810–1885). He studied classical philology at the Universities of

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and

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, receiving his doctorate in 1843 with a textual critique on the Roman poet

Propertius Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium and died shortly after 15 BC. Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of ''Elegies'' ('). He was a friend of the poets Gallus a ...

. From 1844 to 1846 he conducted manuscript studies at libraries in Italy. After his return to Germany, he became an instructor at the Francke Foundation Pädagogium in

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.Keil, Heinrich
@ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie In 1859 he was named successor to Carl Friedrich Nagelsbach as chair of classical philology at the

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. In 1869 he became a full professor of classical philology at the

University of Halle Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university i ...

as a successor to

Theodor Bergk Theodor Bergk (22 May 181220 July 1881) was a German philologist, an authority on classical Greek poetry. Biography He was born in Leipzig as the son of Johann Adam Bergk. After studying at the University of Leipzig, where he profited by the inst ...

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The focus of his work were studies of the ancient Latin grammarians (''Grammatici latini'', eight volumes, 1855–1880) and critical editions involving the works of

Cato the Elder Marcus Porcius Cato (; 234–149 BC), also known as Cato the Censor ( la, Censorius), the Elder and the Wise, was a Roman soldier, senator, and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization. He was the first to write histo ...

Varro Marcus Terentius Varro (; 116–27 BC) was a Roman polymath and a prolific author. He is regarded as ancient Rome's greatest scholar, and was described by Petrarch as "the third great light of Rome" (after Vergil and Cicero). He is sometimes calle ...

and

Pliny the Younger Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger (), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate ...

. In 1875, he began the series ''Dissertationes philologicae Halenses'' (13 volumes up to the year 1894). * ''Obseruationes criticae in Propertium'', 1843. * ''Observationum criticarum in Catonis et Varronis de re rustica libros caput secundum'', 1848. * ''Analecta grammatica'', 1848. * ''Observationes criticae in Catonis et Varronis De re rvstica libros accedit Epimetrvm criticvm'', 1849. * ''Grammatici latini'', 1855–80
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* ''Quaestiones grammaticae'', 1860. * ''Henrici Keilii De libris manu scriptis Catonis de agri cultura disputatio''. * ''Henrici Keilii De Plinii epistulis emendandis disputatio'', 1865-1866.WorldCat Search
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Keil, Heinrich 1822 births 1894 deaths People from Nordwestmecklenburg People from the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin German classical philologists University of Erlangen-Nuremberg faculty University of Halle faculty