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BERGK (1812—1881)  , German philologist, was born at Leipzig on the 22nd of May 1812 . After studying at the university of his native town, where he profited by the instruction of G . Hermann, he was appointed in 1835 to the lectureship in Latin at the orphan school at Halle . After holding posts at Neustrelitz, Berlin and Cassel, he succeeded (1842) K . F . Hermann as professor of classical literature at Marburg . In 1852 he went to Freiburg, and in 1857 returned to Halle . In 1868 he resigned his professorship, and settled down to study and literary work in Bonn . He died on the loth of July 1881, at Ragatz in Switzerland, where he had gone for the benefit of his health . Bergk's literary activity was very great, but his reputation mainly rests upon his work in connexion with Greek literature and the Greek lyric poets . His Poetae Lyrici Graeci (1843, 5th ed . 1900, &e.), and Griechische Litteraturgeschichte (1872—1887, completed by G .

Hinrichs and R . Peppmuller) are standard works . He also edited Anacreon (1834), the fragments of Aristophanes (184o), Aristophanes (3rd ed., 1872), Sophocles (2nd ed., 1868), a lyric anthology (4th ed., 1890) . Among his other works may be mentioned: Augusti Rerum a se geslarum Index (1873); Inschriften romischer Schleudergeschosse (1876); Zur Geschichte and Topographic der Rheinlande in rOmischer Zeil (1882); Beitrage zur romischen Chronologie (1884) . His Kleine philologische Schriften have been edited by Peppmuller (1884-1886), and contain, in addition to a complete list of his writings, a sketch of his life . See Sandys, llist. of Class . Schol iii . 146 (1908) .