Johann August Nauck (18 September 1822 – 3 August 1892) was a German classical scholar and
critic. His chief work was the ''Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta'' (''TrGF'').
Biography
Nauck was born at
Auerstedt
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in present-day
Thuringia
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. He studied at the
University of Halle
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as a student of
Gottfried Bernhardy and
. In 1853 he became an adjunct under
August Meineke
Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke (also ''Augustus Meineke''; ; 8 December 179012 December 1870), German classical scholar, was born at Soest in the Duchy of Westphalia. He was father-in-law to philologist Theodor Bergk. at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in
Berlin
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. After a brief stint as an educator at the ''Grauen Kloster'' (1858), he relocated to
St. Petersburg
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, where in 1869, he was appointed professor of
Greek
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at the historical-philological institute.
Nauck was one of the most distinguished textual critics of his day,
[Nauck , August]
@ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie although, like
PH Peerlkamp, he was fond of altering a text in accordance with what he thought the author must, or ought to, have written. Nauck was elected a foreign member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1885.
Published works
The most important of his writings and translations, all of which deal with Greek language and
literature
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(especially the tragedians) are as follows:
* Fragments of
Aristophanes of Byzantium (1848).
* ''Euripidis Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum fragmenta; ex recensione Augusti Nauckii'', (1854). (
Euripides
Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars a ...
, tragedies and fragments)
* ''Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta'' (1856, last edition, 1983), His chief work — it was intended as a counterpart to Meineke's "comedy fragments", ("''Fragmenta comicorum graecorum''").
[
* Revised edition of Schneidewin's annotated ]Sophocles
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(1856, etc.)
* Porphyrius of Tyre (1860, 2nd ed., 1886); "''Porphyrii philosophi Platonici opuscula selecta''".
* ''Lexikon Vindobonense'' (1867).
* texts of Homer
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, ''Odyssey
The ''Odyssey'' (; grc, Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia, ) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the ''Iliad'', th ...
'' (1874) and ''Iliad
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'' (1877–1879); published as "''Homerica carmina''" (volume I. Ilias; volume II. Odyssea).WorldCat Title
Homerica carmina
*
Iamblichus, ''De Vita Pythagorica'' (1884).
References
*
External links
*
Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta' recensuit Augustus Nauck, Lipsiae sumptibus et typis B. G. Teubneri, 1856.
**
Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta' recensuit Augustus Nauck, editio secunda, Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1889.
Further reading
*Memoir by
T Zielinski, in
Bursian's ''Biographisches Jahrbuch'' (1894), and
JE Sandys, ''History of Classical Scholarship'', iii. (1908), pp. 149–152.
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1822 births
1892 deaths
People from Weimarer Land
German classical philologists
German classical scholars
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Saint Petersburg State University faculty
University of Halle alumni