Karl David Ilgen (26 February 1763, in Sehna, a village near

Eckartsberga Eckartsberga () is a town in the Burgenlandkreis district of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated west of Naumburg. It is part of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") An der Finne. Since 2009 it has included the former municipali ...

– 17 September 1834, in

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) was a German Protestant

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scholar and

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. He studied

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and

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at the

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, and was later appointed

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at the munincipal gymnasium in

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(1789). In 1794 he became a professor of

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at the

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. From 1802 to 1831, he was rector of the

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. Ilgen is credited as the first to use the term "

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" in classical literature, coining the term in 1796 when describing the Homeric "Hymn to Hermes".

Associated works

* "Jobi antiquiss. carminis Hebraica natura atque virtutes", 1789. * "Hymni Homerici cum reliquis carminibus minoribus Homero tributi solitis et Batrachomyomachia", 1796 * "Opuscula varia philologica", 1797. * "Die Urkunden des ersten Buchs von Moses in ihrer Urgestalt", 1798 – The records of the first books of

Moses Moses hbo, מֹשֶׁה, Mōše; also known as Moshe or Moshe Rabbeinu (Mishnaic Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ, ); syr, ܡܘܫܐ, Mūše; ar, موسى, Mūsā; grc, Mωϋσῆς, Mōÿsēs () is considered the most important pro ...

in their original form. * "Skolia, hoc est Carmina convivalia Graecorum", 1798. * "Animadversiones philologicae et criticae in Carmen Virgilianum quod Copa inscribitum", 1820.OCLC Classify
published works

References

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