Karl Friedrich Hermann (4 August 1804 – 31 December 1855) was a German classical scholar and

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Biography

He was born at

Frankfurt-am-Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian dialects, Hessian: , "Franks, Frank ford (crossing), ford on the Main (river), Main"), is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as o ...

. Having studied

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at the universities of

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

and

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

(and taking a degree in 1824), he went on a tour of

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; on his return from which he lectured as ''

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'' in Heidelberg. In 1832 he was appointed professor of

classical philology 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 and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

at the

University of Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg (german: Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protestant university in the wor ...

, and in 1833 received the additional offices of second librarian at the university, and director of the philological seminary. In 1842 he transferred to

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

as the chair of

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and

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, vacant by the death of Otfried Müller. At Göttingen, his colleagues were

Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (6 June 1810 – 11 January 1856), was a German classical scholar. Biography He was born on 6 June 1810 at Helmstedt. In 1833, he became a teacher at the Braunschweig gymnasium. In 1837 he was appointed an associa ...

, Ernst von Leutsch and

Friedrich Wieseler Friedrich Wieseler (19 October 1811, in Altencelle – 3 December 1892, in Göttingen) was a German classical archaeologist and philologist. He studied classical philology at the University of Göttingen, where he was a disciple of Karl Otfried ...

Works

His knowledge of all branches of classical learning was profound, but he was chiefly distinguished for his works on Greek antiquities and ancient

. Among these may be mentioned, the ''Lehrbuch der griechischen Antiquitäten'' (1858) dealing with political, religious and domestic antiquities; the ''Geschichte und System der Platonischen Philosophie'' (1839), unfinished; an edition of the ''Platonis Dialogi'' ("

Platonic dialogues Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...

"), 6 volumes, 1851–1853); and ''Culturgeschichte der Griechen und Römer'' (1857), published after his death by Karl Gustav Schmidt. He also edited the text of

Juvenal Decimus Junius Juvenalis (), known in English as Juvenal ( ), was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century CE. He is the author of the collection of satirical poems known as the ''Satires''. The details of Juvenal's life ...

and

Persius Aulus Persius Flaccus (; 4 December 3424 November 62 AD) was a Ancient Rome, Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan civilization, Etruscan origin. In his works, poems and satires, he shows a Stoicism, Stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for what he ...

(1854) and

Lucian Lucian of Samosata, '; la, Lucianus Samosatensis ( 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer Pamphleteer is a historical term for someone who creates or distributes pamphlets, unbound (and therefore ...

's ''De conscribenda historia'' (1828). A collection of ''Abhandlungen und Beiträge'' appeared in 1849.Gesammelte Abhandlungen und Beiträge zur classischen Literatur und Alterthumskunde
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References

* This work in turn cites: ** M. Lechner, ''Zur Erinnerung an Karl Friedrich Hermann'' (1864)

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hermann, Karl Friedrich 1804 births 1855 deaths German classical scholars German classical philologists Leipzig University alumni Heidelberg University alumni Archaeologists from Frankfurt Academic staff of the University of Marburg Academic staff of the University of Göttingen