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See also:AUGUST IMMANUEL See also:BEKKER (1785–1871) , See also:German philologist and critic, was See also:born on the 21st of May 1785 . He completed his classical See also:education at the university of See also:Halle under F . A . See also:Wolf, who considered him as his most promising See also:pupil . In 1810 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:philosophy in the university of See also:Berlin . For several years, between 1810 and 1821, he travelled in See also:France, See also:Italy, See also:England and parts of See also:Germany, examining classical See also:manuscripts and gathering materials for his See also:great editorial labours . He died at Berlin on the 7th of See also:June 1871 . Some detached fruits of his researches were given in the Anecdota Graeca, 1814-1821; but the full result of his unwearied See also:industry and ability is to be found in the enormous See also:array of classical authors edited by him . Anything like a See also:complete See also:list of his See also:works would occupy too much space, but it may be said that his industry extended to nearly the whole of See also:Greek literature with the exception of the tragedians and lyric poets . His best known See also:editions are: See also:Plato (1816–1823), Oratores Attici (1823–1824), See also:Aristotle (1831–1836), See also:Aristophanes (1829), and twenty-five volumes of the Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae . The only Latin authors edited by him were See also:Livy (1829–183o) and See also:Tacitus (1831) . See also:Bekker confined himself entirely to textual recension and See also:criticism, in which he relied solely upon the See also:MSS., and contributed little to the See also:extension of See also:general scholarship . See Sauppe, Zur Erinnerung an See also:Meineke 'und Bekker (1872) ; See also:Haupt, " Gedachtnisrede auf Meineke und Bekker," in his Opuscula, iii.; E . I . Bekker, " Zur Erinnerung an meinen Vater," in the Preussisches Jahrbuch, See also:xxix . |
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