Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich Passow (20 September 1786 – 11 March 1833) was a German classical scholar and

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries. It is divided into two separate academic disciplines: * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionary, dictionaries. * The ...

Biography

He was born at Ludwigslust in the

Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin The Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin () was a duchy in northern Germany created in 1701, when Frederick William and Adolphus Frederick II divided the Duchy of Mecklenburg between Schwerin and Strelitz. Ruled by the successors of the Nikloting H ...

. In 1807 he was appointed to the professorship of

Greek literature Greek literature () dates back from the ancient Greek literature, beginning in 800 BC, to the modern Greek literature of today. Ancient Greek literature was written in an Ancient Greek dialect, literature ranges from the oldest surviving wri ...

at the

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gymnasium by

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...

, whose acquaintance he had made during a holiday tour; his lessons were attended by the young

Arthur Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer ( ; ; 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is known for his 1818 work ''The World as Will and Representation'' (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the Phenomenon, phenomenal world as ...

. In 1815 he became professor of ancient literature at the University of Breslau, where he continued to live until his death. His endorsement of gymnastic exercises, in which he himself took part, caused a quarrel known as the ''Breslauer Turnfehde'' (“Breslau gymnastics feud”).

Works

Passow's great work was his ''Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache'' (1819–1824) ("Dictionary of the Greek Language"), originally a revision of

Johann Gottlob Schneider Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (18 January 1750 – 12 January 1822) was a German classicist and naturalist. Biography Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony. In 1774, on the recommendation of Christian Gottlob Heine, he became secretary to ...

's lexicon, which appeared in the fourth edition (1831) as an independent work, without Schneider's name. Other works by Passow are ''Grundzüge der griech. und röm. Literatur und Kunstgeschichte'' (“Foundations of Greek and Roman Literature and History of Art”; 2nd ed., 1829) and editions of

Persius Aulus Persius Flaccus (; 4 December 3424 November 62 AD) was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. In his works, poems and satire, he shows a Stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for what he considered to be the stylistic abuses of his ...

Longus Longus, sometimes Longos (), was the author of an ancient Greek novel or romance, '' Daphnis and Chloe''. Nothing is known of his life; it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos (setting for ''Daphnis and Chloe'') during the 2nd centu ...

Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. Tacitus’ two major historical works, ''Annals'' ( ...

's ''

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'', Dionysius Periegetes, and Musaeus. His miscellaneous writings were collected in ''Opuscula academica'' (“Minor academic works”; 1835) and ''Vermischte Schriften'' (“Miscellaneous writings”; 1843). Passow's Greek lexicon was the basis for the '' Greek-English Lexicon'' of Liddell and Scott.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Passow, Franz 1786 births 1833 deaths People from Ludwigslust People from the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin German classical scholars Scholars of Ancient Greek German male non-fiction writers 19th-century German lexicographers

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