Richard Carl Meister (July 27, 1848 – November 30, 1912) was a German

classical scholar 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 ...

and

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

born in

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. He specialized in the field of Greek dialects. From 1872 he taught classes at Nikolai Gymnasium in

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, where in 1892 he received the title of professor. Among his written works are the following: * ''De dialecto Heracliensium italicorum'', 1871. * ''Die griechischen Dialekte auf Grundlage von Ahrens' Werk: De Graecae linguae dialectis'' ( Greek dialects on the basis of Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens' work: "De Graecae Linguae Dialectis"); (2 volumes 1882, 1889). * ''Zum eleischen, arkadischen und kyprischen Dialekte'' (On

Elean Elis () or Eleia ( el, Ήλιδα, Ilida, grc-att, Ἦλις, Ēlis ; Elean: , ethnonym: ) is an ancient district in Greece that corresponds to the modern regional unit of Elis. Elis is in southern Greece on the Peloponnese, bounded on ...

, Arcadian and Cypriot dialects), 1890.Richard Meister
de.Wikisource * ''Die Mimiamben des Herodas'' (The "Mimiamben" of Herodas), 1893. * ''Dorer und Achäer'' (

Dorians The Dorians (; el, Δωριεῖς, ''Dōrieîs'', singular , ''Dōrieús'') were one of the four major ethnic groups into which the Hellenes (or Greeks) of Classical Greece divided themselves (along with the Aeolians, Achaeans, and Ionian ...

and Achaeans), 1904.

References

Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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(list of publications) German classical scholars Writers from Dresden Linguists from Germany Dialectologists 1848 births 1912 deaths {{Germany-linguist-stub