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unusual facts about classical philology



Christian Frederick Matthaei

Christian Frederick Matthaei (1744, Mücheln – 1811), a Thuringian, palaeographer, classical philologist, professor first at Wittenberg and then at Moscow.

Markowice, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

It was the birthplace (1848) of the well-known German Classical Philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, born of a German aristocratic family.

Mogens Herman Hansen

Mogens Herman Hansen FBA (b. August 20, 1940 in Frederiksberg, Denmark) is a Danish classical philologist and classical demographer who is one of the leading scholars in Athenian Democracy and the Polis.

Richard Janko

Richard Janko (born May 30, 1955 in Weston Underwood) is a British-American classical philologist whose work has focused primarily upon Bronze Age Greece, archaic Greek epic, ancient literary criticism and the reconstruction of ancient books on papyrus-rolls.


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Albert Anton von Muchar

From 1823 to 1825 he was supplementary professor of Biblical science, becoming afterwards professor of aesthetics and classical philology at the University of Graz.

Aurelio González Ovies

He has a Ph.D in Classical Philology and he is a teacher of Latin at the University of Oviedo, where he served as vice dean of the Faculty of Philology from 1996 to 2008.

Codex Augiensis

W. H. P. Hatch, On the Relationship of Codex Augiensis and Codex Boernerianus of the Pauline Epistles, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol.

Georg Bühler

Bühler was born to Rev. Johann G. Bühler in Borstel, Hanover, attended high school in Hanover where he mastered Greek and Latin, then university as a student of theology and philosophy at Göttingen, where he studied classical philology, Sanskrit, Zend, Persian, Armenian, and Arabic.

Gordon Jennings Laing

He was managing editor of the Classical Journal from 1905 to 1908, associate editor of Classical Philology after 1905, and general editor of the University of Chicago Press after 1908.

Hadoard

Charles H. Beeson, The Collectaneum of Hadoard, Classical Philology, Vol.

Johannes van der Kemp

Armed with a background in European and classical philology, he pioneered in the study of Xhosa and Khoikhoi languages.

Karl Emil Franzos

He would have liked to study classical philology with the aim of becoming a teacher, but no scholarship was forthcoming.