Leipzig
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– 5 September 1920, Leipzig) was a
German
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classical philologist
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. He was the brother of theologian
Richard Adelbert Lipsius
Richard Adelbert Lipsius (14 February 1830 in Gera, Thuringia – 19 August 1892 in Jena, Thuringia) was a German Protestant theologian.
Biography
Richard Adelbert Lipsius was the son of K. H. A. Lipsius (d. 1861), who was rector of the school ...
.
He studied
theology
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and philology at the
University of Leipzig
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(1850–1856), where he later served as an associate professor (1869-1877) and full professor (1877-1914) of classical philology. In 1891/92 he was university
rector
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Andocides
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(1888) and of
Demosthenes
Demosthenes (; el, Δημοσθένης, translit=Dēmosthénēs; ; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prow ...
, "''De corona oratio''" (1884), reviser of
Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier (1 January 1796 – 5 December 1855) was a German classical philologist, born at Glogau. ...
and
Georg Friedrich Schömann Georg Friedrich Schömann (28 June 1793 – 25 March 1879), was a German classical scholar of Swedish heritage.