Gottfried Bernhardy German

Germany

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 philologist

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 and literary historian, was born at Landsberg an der Warthe

Gorzów Wielkopolski

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 in the Neumark

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.

He was the son of Jewish parents in reduced circumstances. Two well-to-do uncles provided the means for his education, and in 1811 he entered the Joachimsthal gymnasium at Berlin

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. In 1817 he went to Berlin University

Humboldt University of Berlin

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 to study philology

Philology

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

, where he had the advantage of hearing F.A. Wolf

Friedrich August Wolf

Friedrich August Wolf was a German philologist and critic.He was born at Hainrode, a village not far from Nordhausen, Germany. His father was the village schoolmaster and organist...

 (then advanced in years), August Böckh

Philipp August Böckh

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 and P. Buttmann

Philipp Karl Buttmann

Philipp Karl Buttmann , German philologist, was born at Frankfurt am Main.He was educated in his native town and at the university of Göttingen. In 1789 he obtained an appointment in the library at Berlin, and for some years he edited Spener's Journal. In 1796 he became professor at the...

. In 1822 he took the degree of doctor of philosophy at Berlin, and in 1825 became extraordinary professor. In 1829 he succeeded Christian Carl Reisig

Christian Karl Reisig

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 as ordinary professor and director of the philological seminary at Halle, and in 1844 was appointed chief librarian of the university.

The most important of Bernhardy's works were his histories (or sketches) of Greek and Roman literature:

• Grundriss der römischen Litteratur (5th ed., 1872)
• Grundriss der griechischen Litteratur:
  • Pt. i, Introduction and General View, 1836
  • Pt. ii, Greek Poetry, 1845
  • pt. iii, Greek Prose Literature, was never published.

A fifth edition of pts. i. and ii., by R. Volkmann, began in 1892. Other works by Bernhardy are:

• Eratosthenica (1822)
• Wissenschaftliche Syntax der griechischen Sprache (1829, suppts. 1854, 1862)
• Grundlinien zur Encyclopädie der Philologie (1832)
• the monumental edition of the Lexicon of Suidas
  Suda
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   (1834-1853)
• an edition of F. A. Wolf's Kleine Schriften
  Kleine Schriften
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  (1869).