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BERNHARDY (1800–1875)  , German philologist and literary historian, was born on the loth of March 1800, at Landsberg on the Wartia, in Brandenburg . He was the son of Jewish parents in reduced circumstances . Two well-to-do uncles provided the means for his education, and in 1811 he entered the Joachimsthal gymnasium at Berlin . In 1817 he went to Berlin University to study philology, where he had the advantage of hearing F . A Wolf (then advanced in years), August Bockh and P . Buttmann . In 1822 he took the degree of doctor of philosophy at Berlin, and in 1825 became extra-ordinary professor . In 1829 he succeeded C . Reisig as ordinary professor and director of the philological seminary at Halle, and in 1844 was appointed chief librarian of the university . He died suddenly on the 14th of May 1875 . The most important of Bernhardy's works were his histories (or sketches) of Greek and Roman literature; Grundriss der romischen Litteratur (5th ed., 1872); Grundriss der griechischen Litteratur (pt. i., Introduction and General View, 1836; pt. ii , Greek Poetry, 1845; pt. iii., Greek Prose Literature, was never published) . A fifth edition of pts. i. and ii., by R .

Volkmann, began in 1892 . Other works by Bernhardy are: Eratosthenica (1822); Wissenschaftliche Syntax der griechischen Sprache (1829, suppts . 18J4, 1862); Grundlinien zur Encyclopddie der Philologie (1832); the monumental edition of the

Lexicon of Suidas (1834–1853); and an edition of F . A . Wolf's Kleine Schriften (1869) . See Volkmann, G . Bernhardy (1887) .