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CARL See also:FELIX See also:HALM (18o9-1882) , See also:German classical See also:scholar and critic, was See also:born at See also:Munich on the 5th of See also:April 1809 . In 1849, after having held appointments at See also:Spires and Hadamar, he became See also:rector of the newly founded Maximiliansgymnasium at Munich, and in 1856 director of the royal library and See also:professor in the university . These posts he held till his See also:death on the 5th of See also:October 1882 . It is chiefly as the editor of See also:Cicero and other Latin See also:prose authors that See also:Halm is known, although in See also:early years he also devoted considerable See also:attention to See also:Greek . After the death of J . C . See also:Orelli, he joined J . G . See also:Baiter in the preparation of a revised See also:critical edition of the rhetorical and philosophical writings of Cicero (1854-1862) . His school See also:editions of some of the speeches of Cicero in the See also:Haupt and Sauppe See also:series, with notes and introductions, were very successful . He also edited a number of classical texts for the Teubner series, the most important of which are See also:Tacitus (4th ed., 1883); Rhetores See also:Latini minores (1863); See also:Quintilian (1868); Sulpicius See also:Severus (1866); Minucius See also:Felix together with See also:Firmicus Maternus De errore(1867); Salvianus (1877) and See also:Victor Vitensis's Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae (1878) . He was also an enthusiastic See also:collector of See also:autographs . See articles by W . See also:Christ and G . Laubmann in Allgemeine deutsche Biographic and by C . See also:Bursian in Biographisches Jahrbuch; and J . E . See also:Sandys, Dist. of Classical Scholarship, iii . 195 (1908) . |
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