Augustus Meineke

Augustus Meineke

Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke (December 8, 1790 - December 12, 1870), German classical scholar, was born at Soest in Westphalia.

After holding educational posts at Jenkau and Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), he was director of the Joachimsthal gymnasium in Berlin from 1826 to 1856. He died at Berlin on 12 December 1870. He was distinguished in conjectural criticism, the comic writers and Alexandrine poets being his favourite authors.

His most important works are:
*"Graecorum comicorum fragmenta" (1839-1857, the first volume of which contains an essay on the development of Greek comedy and an account of its chief representatives)
*"Aristophanes" (1860)
*"Analecta alexandrina" (1843, containing the fragments of Rhianus, Euphorion, Alexander of Aetolia, and Parthenius)
*"Callimachus" (1861)
*"Theocritus, Bion, Moschus" (3rd ed,, 1856)
*"Alciphron" (1853)
*"Strabo" (2nd ed.,1866) and "Vindiciae strabonianae" (1852)
*"Stobaeus" (1855-1863)
*"Athenaeus" (1858-1867).

See monographs by F. Ranke (1871), H. Sauppe (1872) and E. Förstemann in "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie", XXI. (1885) also Sandys, "Hist. Class. Schol." (1908), iii. 117.

References

*1911


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