STEPHAN

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• STEPHAN BERGLER

BERGLER  , German classical scholar, was born about 168o at Kronstadt in Transylvania . The date of his death is uncertain . After studying at Leipzig, he went to Amsterdam, where he edited Homer and the Onomaslicon of Julius Pollux for Wetzstein the publisher . Subsequently, at Hamburg, he assisted the great bibliographer J . A . Fabricius in the production of his Bibliotheca Graeca and his edition of Sextus Empiricus . He finally found a permanent post in Bucharest as secretary to the prince of Walachia, Alexander Mavrocordato, whose work l epl TWV Kath7KOVTWV (De Ojjiciis) he had previously translated for Fritzsch, the Leipzig bookseller, by whom he had been employed as proof-reader and literary hack . In the prince's library Bergler discovered the introduction and the first three chapters of Eusebius's Demonstratio Evangelica. lie died in Bucharest, and was buried at his patron's expense . According to another account, Bergler, finding himself without means, drifted to Constantinople, where he came to an untoward end (c . 1740) . He is said to have become a convert to Islam; this report was probably a mistake for the undisputed fact that he embraced Roman Catholicism . Bergler led a wild and irregular life, and offended his friends and made many enemies by his dissipated habits and cynical disposition .

In addition to

writing numerous articles for the Leipzig Acta Eruditorum, Bergler edited the editio princeps of the Byzantine historiographer Genesius (1733), and the letters of Alciphron (1715), in which seventy-five hitherto unpublished letters were for the first time included .