Conrad Bursian

Conrad Bursian (14 November 1830 – 21 September 1883) was a German philologist and archaeologist.

He was born at Mutzschen in Saxony. When his parents moved to Leipzig, he received his early education at Thomasschule zu Leipzig, and entered the university in 1847. Here he studied under Moritz Haupt and Otto Jahn until 1851, then spent six months in Berlin (chiefly to attend Böckh's lectures), and completed his university studies at Leipzig (1852). He spent the next three years travelling in Belgium, France, Italy and Greece. In 1856 he became a Privatdozent, and in 1858 extraordinary professor at Leipzig; in 1861 professor of philology and archaeology at Tübingen; in 1864 professor of classical antiquities at Zürich; in 1869 at Jena, where he was also director of the archaeological museum; and in 1874 at Munich, where he remained until his death.

Works

His most important works are:

• Geographie von Griechenland (1862-1872)
• Beiträge zur Geschichte der klassischen Studien im Mittelalter (1873)
• Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883)
• edition of Julius Firmicus Maternus' De Errore Profanarum Religionum (1856)
• edition of Seneca the Elder's Suasoriae (1857).

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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Name	Bursian, Conrad
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Date of birth	14 November 1830
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Date of death	21 September 1883
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