See also:REINHOLD See also:KLOTZ (1807-1870)
, See also:German classical See also:scholar, was See also:born near See also:Chemnitz in See also:Saxony on the 13th of See also:March 1807
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In 1849 he was appointed See also:professor in the university of See also:Leipzig in See also:succession to Gottfried See also:Hermann, and held this See also:post till his See also:death on the loth of See also:August 1870
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See also:Klotz was a See also:man of unwearied See also:industry, and devoted See also:special See also:attention to Latin literature
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He was the author of See also:editions of several classical authors, of which the most important were: the See also:complete See also:works of See also:Cicero (2nd ed., 1869–1874); See also:Clement of See also:Alexandria (1831–1834); See also:Euripides (1841–1867), in continuation of Pflugk's edition, but unfinished; See also:Terence (1838–184o), with the commentaries of See also:Donatus and Eugraphius
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Mention should also be made of : Handworterbuch der lateinischen Sprache (5th ed., 1874) ; Romische Litteraturgeschichte (1847), of which only the See also:introductory See also:volume appeared; an edition of the See also:treatise De Graecae linguae particulis (1835–1842) of Matthaeus Deverius (Devares), a learned Corfiote (c
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1500-1570), and corrector of the See also:Greek See also:MSS. in the Vatican; the See also:posthumous See also:Index Ciceronianus (1872) and Handbuch der lateinischen Stilistik (1874)
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From 1831–1855 Klotz was editor of the Neue Jahrbucher See also:fur Philologie (Leipzig)
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During the troubled times of 1848 and the following years he showed himself a strong conservative
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A memoir by his son See also:Richard will be found in the Jahrbucher for 1871, PP
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154–163
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