Ludwig Preller was a German

Germany

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 philologist and antiquarian

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Born in Hamburg

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, he studied at Leipzig

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, Berlin

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 and Göttingen

Göttingen

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, in 1838 he was appointed to the professorship of philology at the University of Dorpat, which, however, he resigned in 1843. He afterwards spent some time in Italy

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, but settled in Jena

Jena

Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. It has a population of approx. 103,000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document...

 in 1844, where he became professor in 1846. In the same year he removed as head librarian to Weimar.

His chief works are: Demeter u. Persephone (1837), Griechische Mythologie (1854–1855) and Römische Mythologie (1858). He also co-operated with Heinrich Ritter

Heinrich Ritter

Heinrich Ritter was a German philosopher.He was born at Zerbst, and studied philosophy and theology at Göttingen and Berlin until 1815. In 1824 he became extraordinary professor of philosophy at Berlin, later transferring to Kiel, where he occupied the chair of philosophy from 1833 to 1837...

 in the preparation of the most useful Historia philosophiae graecae et romanae ex fontium locis contexta (1838).

He contributed extensively to Ersch and Gruber

Johann Gottfried Gruber

Johann Gottfried Gruber was a German critic and literary historian.-Biography:Gruber was born at Naumburg on the Saale....

's Allgemeine Encyklopädie and Pauly's

August Pauly

August Friedrich von Pauly was a teacher who began the first edition of the classical encyclopedia Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, whose later editions are commonly known as the Pauly–Wissowa. Pauly died while working on the fourth volume....

Realencyklopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft.