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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 83 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHANN ALBRECHT

FRIEDRICH AUGUST MEINEKE (1790-1870)  , German classical scholar, was born at
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Soest in Westphalia on the 8th of December 1790 . After holding educational posts at Jenkau and Danzig, he was director of the Joachimsthal gymnasium in Berlin from 1826 to 1856 . He died at Berlin on the 12th of December 187o . He was distinguished in conjectural criticism, the comic writers and Alexandrine poets being his favourite authors . His most important
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works are: Graecorum comicorum fragmenta (1839-1857, the first
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volume of which contains an essay on the development of Greek
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comedy and an account of its chief representatives); Aristophanes (186o); Analecta alexandrina (1843, containing the fragments of Rhianus,
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Euphorion, Alexander of
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Aetolia, and
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Parthenius) ;
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Callimachus (1861) ;
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Theocritus, Sion,
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Moschus (3rd ed., 1856) ;
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Alciphron (1853) ; Strabo (2nd ed.,1866) and Vindiciae strabonianae (1852) ; Stobaeus (1855–1863) ;
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Athenaeus (1858–1867) . See monographs by F . Ranke (1871), H . Sauppe (1872), and E . Forstemann in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, XXI . (1885) ; also Sandys, Hist . Class . Schol .

(1908), iii . 117 .

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