Friedrich Heinrich Christian Lübker (18 August 1811,

Husum Husum (, ) is the capital of the ''Kreis'' (district) Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The town was the birthplace of the novelist Theodor Storm, who coined the epithet "the grey town by the sea". It is also the home of the annual i ...

– 10 October 1867,

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) was a German educator and

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

. He studied philology and theology at the

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, receiving his doctorate in 1832. In 1835 he was named school conrector in

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, and in 1848 was appointed rector of the provisional government school in Flensburg, In 1851 he relocated to

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as director of its high school (gymnasium). Later he moved to

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in order to spend time pursuing literary interests. In 1864 he returned to Flensburg, where he was tasked with reorganization of its high school system.ADB:Lübker, Friedrich Heinrich Christian
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Literary efforts

He was the author of many works, including a popular dictionary of

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that was issued in numerous editions spanning several decades. He was also published a number of biographical works on various theological figures — Rhabanus Maurus,

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, the martyrs victimized by

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, to name a few. The following are a list of his principal works: * ''Die Sophokleische Theologie und Ethik'', 1851-1855 - Sophoclean theology and ethics. * ''Gesammelte schriften zur philologie und paedagogik'', 1852 - Collected papers on philology and pedagogy. * ''Reallexikon des classischen Alterthums für Gymnasien'', (22 editions published between 1855 and 1914). * ''Handwörterbuch der lateinischen Sprache'', (

Reinhold Klotz Reinhold Klotz (13 March 1807 – 10 August 1870) was a German classical scholar. Biography Klotz was born in Stollberg near Chemnitz in the Kingdom of Saxony on 13 March 1807. He studied at the University of Leipzig and became assistant professo ...

, with Lübker and Ernst Eduard Hudemann; six editions published between 1857 and 1879) - Dictionary of the

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. * ''Beiträge zur Theologie und Ethik des Euripides'', 1863 - Contributions to the theology and ethics of

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. * ''Vorträge über Bildung und Christenthum'', 1863 - Lectures on education and Christianity.WorldCat Identities
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