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KARL WILHELM DINDORF (1802-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 275 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DINDORF (1802-1883)  , See also:German classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Leipzig on the 2nd of See also:January 1802 . From his earliest years he showed a strong See also:taste for classical studies, and after completing F . Invernizi's edition of See also:Aristophanes at an See also:early See also:age, and editing several grammarians and rhetoricians, was in 1828 appointed extraordinary See also:professor of See also:literary See also:history in his native See also:city . Disappointed at not obtaining the See also:ordinary professorship when it became vacant in 1833, he resigned his See also:post in the same See also:year, and devoted himself entirely to study and literary See also:work . His See also:attention had at first been chiefly given to See also:Athenaeus, whom he edited in 1827, and to the See also:Greek dramatists, all of whom he edited separately and combined in his Poetae scenici Graeci (183o and later See also:editions) . He also wrote a work on the metres of the Greek dramatic poets, and compiled See also:special lexicons to See also:Aeschylus and See also:Sophocles . He edited See also:Procopius for See also:Niebuhr's Corpus of the See also:Byzantine writers, and between 1846 and 1851 brought out at See also:Oxford an important edition of See also:Demosthenes; he also edited See also:Lucian and See also:Josephus for the See also:Didot See also:classics . His last important editorial labour was his See also:Eusebius of Caesarea (1867-1871) . Much of his attention was occupied by the re-publication of Stephanus's See also:Thesaurus (See also:Paris, 1831-1865), chiefly executed by him and his See also:brother See also:Ludwig, a work of prodigious labour and utility . His reputation suffered somewhat through the imposture practised upon him by the Greek See also:Constantine See also:Simonides, who succeeded in deceiving him by a fabricated fragment of the Greek historian See also:Uranus . The See also:book was printed, and a few copies had been circulated, when the See also:forgery was discovered, just in See also:time to prevent its being given to the See also:world under the auspices of the university of Oxford . Shortly after thedeath of his brother, he lost all his See also:property and his library by rash speculations .

He died on the 1st of See also:

August 1883 . His brother LUDWIG (18o5--1871) was born at Leipzig on the 3rd of January 1805, and died there on the 6th of See also:September 1871 . He never held any academical position, and led so secluded a See also:life that many doubted his existence, and declared that he was a See also:mere See also:pseudonym . The important See also:share which he took in the edition of the Thesaurus is nevertheless authenticated by his own See also:signature to his contributions . He also published valuable editions of See also:Polybius, Dio See also:Cassius and other Greek historians . D'INDY, See also:PAUL-See also:MARIE-See also:THEODORE-See also:VINCENT (1851- ), See also:French musical composer, was born in Paris, on the 27th of See also:March 1851 . He studied See also:composition and the See also:organ at the Paris See also:Conservatoire under Cesar See also:Franck, and obtained the See also:grand See also:prize offered by the city of Paris in 1885 with Le See also:Chant de la Cloche, a dramatic See also:legend after See also:Schiller . His See also:principal See also:works, beside the above, are the symphonic trilogy See also:Wallenstein, the symphonic works entitled Saugefleurie, La Foret enchantee, Istar, Symphonie sur un See also:air montagnard See also:francais; See also:overture to See also:Anthony and See also:Cleopatra; Ste Marie Magdeleine, a See also:cantata; Attendez-moi sous forme, a one-See also:act See also:opera; Fervaal, a musical See also:drama in three acts . Vincent d'Indy is perhaps the most prominent among the disciples of Cesar Franck . Imbued with very high aims, he was always guided by a lofty ideal, and few musicians have attained so See also:complete a mastery over the See also:art of See also:instrumentation . His See also:music, however, lacks simplicity, and can never become popular in the widest sense . His opera Fervaal, which is styled " See also:action musicale," is constructed upon the See also:system of Leit-motifs .

Its legendary subject recalls both See also:

Parsifal and See also:Tristan, and the music is also suggestive of Wagnerian See also:influence . D'Indy can scarcely be considered so typical a representative of See also:modern French music as his juniors See also:Alfred See also:Bruneau, the composer of Le Rene, L'Attaque du See also:moulin, Messidor, or Gustave See also:Charpentier, the author of See also:Louise, who See also:chose subjects of modern life for their operatic works .

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