Reinhold Klotz (13 March 1807 – 10 August 1870) was a German classical scholar.

Biography

Klotz was born in Stollberg near

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in the

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on 13 March 1807. He studied at the

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and became assistant professor there in 1832. In 1849 he became a full professor in succession to

Gottfried Hermann Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann (28 November 1772 – 31 December 1848) was a German classical scholar and philologist. He published his works under the name Gottfried Hermann or its Latin equivalent . Biography He was born in Leipzig. Entering ...

, and held this post until his death in Kleinschocher (

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) on 10 August 1870. Klotz was a man of unwearied industry, and devoted special attention to

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literature. During the

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and the following years, he showed himself a strong conservative.

Works

He was the author of editions of several classical authors, of which the most important were: the complete works of ''Cicero'' (2nd ed. 1869–1874); ''Clement of Alexandria'' (1831–1834); ''Euripides'' (1841–1867), in continuation of August Julius Edmund Pflugk's edition, but unfinished; ''Terence'' (1838–1840), with the commentaries of

Aelius Donatus Aelius Donatus (; fl. mid-fourth century AD) was a Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric. Works He was the author of a number of professional works, of which several are extant: *Ars maior – A commentary on Latin grammar. * Ars minor – ...

and . Mention should also be made of ''Handwörterbuch der lateinischen Sprache'' (5th ed., 1874); ''Römische Litteraturgeschichte'' (1847), of which only the introductory volume appeared; an edition of the treatise ''Liber de Graecae linguae particulis'' (1835–1842) of Matthaeus Deverius (or Devares), a learned Corfiote (c. 1500–1570), and corrector of the Greek manuscripts in the Vatican; the posthumous ''Index Ciceronianus'' (1872) and ''Handbuch der lateinischen Stilistik'' (1874). From 1831 to 1855 Klotz was editor of the ''Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie'' (Leipzig). With

Friedrich Lübker Friedrich Heinrich Christian Lübker (18 August 1811, Husum – 10 October 1867, Flensburg) was a German educator and philologist. He studied philology and theology at the University of Kiel, receiving his doctorate in 1832. In 1835 he was na ...

and

Ernst Eduard Hudemann Ernst Eduard Hudemann (15 November 1811, Neumünster – 21 December 1889, Plön) was a German educator, philologist and classical historian. He studied philology at the University of Kiel, afterwards working in Kiel as a ''Hülfslehrer'' (t ...

, he worked on a Latin dictionary (1847–1857). A memoir by his son Richard will be found in the ''Jahrbücher'' for 1871, pp. 154–163.

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