Carl Gustav Löwe (18 February 1852 in

Grimma Grimma (; , ) is a town in Saxony, Central Germany, on the left bank of the Mulde, southeast of Leipzig. Founded in 1170, it is part of the Leipzig district. Location The town is in northern Saxony, southeast of Leipzig and south of Wurz ...

– 16 December 1883 in

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) was a German

classical philologist Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...

and

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. He studied classical philology at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December 1409 by Frederick I, Electo ...

as a pupil of

Friedrich Ritschl Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (6 April 1806 – 9 November 1876), a first cousin of theologian Albrecht Ritschl, was a German scholar best known for his studies of Plautus. Biography Ritschl was born in Großvargula, in present-day Thuringia. Hifami ...

. From 1875 he carried out Plautine research in Italy, and in 1878 traveled to Spain in order to prepare materials for the ''Bibliotheca patrum latinorum'' on behalf of the

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. In 1879 he returned to Leipzig, and during the following year, moved to Göttingen, where he served as curator of the

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. He died on 16 December 1883 (age 31) due to consequences of a falling accident.

Published works

* ''Quaestionum de glossariorum Latinorum fontibus et usu particula commentatio'', 1875. * ''Prodromus corporis glossariorum Latinorum: Quaestiones de glossariorum Latinorum fontibus et usu'', 1876. * ''Analecta Plautina'' (with Georg Goetz, Fritz Schöll, 1877). * ''Exempla scripturae visigoticae 40 tabulis expressa'' (with Paul Ewald, 1883). * ''Glossae nominum'' (edited by Georg Goetz, 1884).Gustav Löwe
de.Wikisource * ''Bibliotheca patrum latinorum hispaniensis'', (edited by

Wilhelm von Hartel Wilhelm August Ritter von Hartel (28 May 1839 – 14 January 1907) was an Austrian philologist specializing in Classics, classical studies. Biography He was born at Dvorce (Bruntál District), Hof, in Moravia, and studied at the University of ...

, 1887).HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works) He also made contributions as an editor to ''T. Macci Plauti Comoediae recensuit instrumento critico et prolegomenis'' (comedies of

Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus ( ; 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andro ...

) and the ''Corpus glossariorum Latinorum''.

References

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