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CHRISTIAN DANIEL See also: German philologist, historian, theologian and antiquarian, one of the most learned men of his See also: time, was See also: born at See also: Leipzig on the 22nd of See also: January 1757
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He studied at Leipzig University, where he was appointed (1785) professor of See also: Greek and Latin literature
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This See also: post he resigned in 1819 in See also: order to take up the professorship of See also: history, but resumed it in 1825
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He also had the management of the university library, was director of the institute for the See also: deaf and dumb, and filled many educational and municipal offices
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In 1784 he founded a philological society, which See also: grew into a philological seminary, superintended by him until his See also: death
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In 1808 he was made a Hofrath by the See also: king of
See also: Saxony, and in 182o a knight of the See also: civil order of merit
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His philological lectures, in which grammar and See also: criticism were subordinated to history, were largely attended by hearers from all parts of See also: Germany
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He died at Leipzig on the 13th of See also: December 1832
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He edited a number of classical authors: Pedo Albinovanus (1783), Pindar and the Scholia (1792–1795), Aristophanes (with others, 1794, &c.),
See also: British See also: protector-See also: ate
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See also: Euripides (1778—1788), See also: Apollonius Rhodius (1797), See also: Demosthenes De See also: pace (1799), See also: Plato (1813—1819), See also: Cicero (1795—1807), Titus See also: Calpurnius Siculus (1803)
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He translated See also: Ferguson's Fall of the See also: Roman Republic and Goldsmith's History of See also: Greece, and added two volumes to See also: Bauer's See also: Thucydides
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He also wrote on theological and See also: historical subjects, and edited philological and See also: bibliographical See also: journals
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He possessed a large and valuable library of 24,000 volumes . See Nobbe, Vita C . D . Beckii (1837); and G . Hermann, Opuscula, V . 312 . |
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