Johann August Nauck

Johann August Nauck (September 18, 1822 - August 3, 1892), was a German classical scholar and critic born at Auerstadt in Prussian Saxony.

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September 18 - 1822 - August 3 - 1892 - German - Critic - Prussia - Saxony

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After studying at Halle and holding educational posts in Berlin, he migrated in 1859 to St Petersburg, where he became a professor of Greek at the imperial historico-philological institute.

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Halle - Berlin - St Petersburg - Greek

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Nauck was one of the most distinguished textual critics of his day, although, like PH Peerlkamp, he was fond of altering a text in accordance with what he thought the author must, or ought to, have written.

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The most important of his writings and translations, all of which deal with Greek language and literature (especially the tragedians) are the following:

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• Euripides, Tragedies and Fragments (1854, 3rd ed., 1871)
• Studio, Euripidea (1859-1862)
• Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1856, last ed., 1889), his chief work
• Index to the Fragments (1892)
• text of Sophocles (1867)
• revised edition of Schneidewin's annotated Sophocles (1856, etc.)
• texts of Homer, Odyssey (1874) and Iliad (1877-1879)
• the fragments of Aristophanes of Byzantium (1848), still indispensable
• Porphyrius of Tyre (1860, 2nd ed., 1886)
• Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica (1884)
• Lexikon Vindobonense (1867), a meagre compilation of the 14th or I5th century.

See memoir by T Zielinski, in Bursian's Biographisches Jahrbuch (1894), and JE Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, iii. (1908), pp. 149-152.

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T Zielinski - Bursian - JE Sandys

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