JOHANN

AUGUST

See also:

• JOHANN AUGUST NAUCK (1822-1892)

NAUCK (1822-1892)  , German classical scholar and critic, was born at Auerstadt in Prussian Saxony on the 18th of September 1822 . After having studied at Halle and held educational posts in Berlin, he migrated in 1859 to St Petersburg, where he was professor of Greek at the imperial historico-philological institute (1869–1883) . He died on the 3rd of August 1892 . Nauck was one of the most distinguished textual critics of his day, although, like P . H . Peerlkamp, he was fond of altering a text in accordance with what he thought the author must, or ought to, have written . The most important of his writings, all of which deal with Greek language and literature (especially the tragedians) are the following: Euripides, Tragedies and Fragments (1854, 3rd ed., 1871); Studia Euripidea (1859–1862); Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1856, last ed., 1889), his chief work; Index to the Fragments (1892); text of Sophocles (1867) : revised edition of Schneidewin's annotated NAUCRATIS Sophocles (1856, &c.) ; texts of Homer, Odyssey (1874, and Iliad (1877–1879) ; the fragments of Aristophanes of Byzantium (1848), still indispensable; Porphyrius of Tyre (186o, 2nd ed., 1886); lamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica (1884) ; Lexikon Vindobonense (1867), a meagre compilation of the 14th or 15th century . See memoir by T . Zielinski, in Bursian's Biographisches Jahrbuch (1894), and J . E . Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, iii . (1908), pp .

149-152 .