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 is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoretica ...

Biography

He was born at

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in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 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 writte ...

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 poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as t ...

, whose acquaintance he had made during a holiday tour; his lessons were attended by the young Arthur Schopenhauer. In 1815 he became professor of ancient literature at the

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, where he continued to live until his death. His endorsement of

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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 satires, he shows a Stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for what he considered to be the stylistic abuses of his ...

, Longus,

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's '' Germania'',

Dionysius Periegetes Dionysius Periegetes ( grc-gre, Διονύσιος ὁ Περιηγητής, literally Dionysius the Voyager or Traveller, often Latinized to ''Dionysius Periegeta''), also known as Dionysius of Alexandria or Dionysius the African,''Encyclopædia ...

, 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 German lexicographers Scholars of Ancient Greek German male non-fiction writers 19th-century lexicographers

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