CONRAD

See also:

• CONRAD BURSIAN (1830–1883)

BURSIAN (1830–1883)  , German philologist and archaeologist, was born at Mutzschen in Saxony, on the 14th of November 183o . On the removal of his parents to Leipzig, he received his early education at the Thomas school, and entered the university in 1847 . Here he studied under Moritz Haupt and Otto Jahn until 1851, spent six months in Berlin (chiefly to attend Bockh's lectures), and completed his university studies at Leipzig (1852) . The next three years were devoted to travel-ling in Belgium, France, Italy and Greece . In 1856 he became a Privat-docent, and in 1858 extraordinary professor at Leipzig; in 1861 professor of philology and archaeology at Tubingen; in 1864 professor of classical antiquities at Zurich; in 1869 at Jena, where he was also director of the archaeological museum; in 1874 at Munich, where he remained until his death on the 21st of September 1883 . His most important works are: Geographic von Griechenland (1862–1872); Beitrdge zur Geschichte der klassischen Studien im Mittelalter (1873); Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883); editions of Julius Firmicus Maternus' De Errore Profanarum Religionum (1856) and of Seneca's Suasoriae (1857) . The article on Greek Art in Ersch and Gruber's Encyclopaedia is by him . Probably the work in connexion with which he is best known is the Jahresbericht uber die Fortschritte der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft (1873, &c.), of which he was the founder and editor; from 1879 a Biographisches Jahrbuch fur Altertumskunde was published by way of supplement, an obituary notice of Bursian, with a complete list of his writings, being in the volume for 1884 .