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JOHANN See also:AUGUST See also:NAUCK (1822-1892) , See also:German classical See also:scholar and critic, was See also:born at Auerstadt in Prussian See also:Saxony on the 18th of See also:September 1822 . After having studied at See also:Halle and held educational posts in See also:Berlin, he migrated in 1859 to St See also:Petersburg, where he was See also:professor of See also:Greek at the imperial historico-philological See also:institute (1869–1883) . He died on the 3rd of See also:August 1892 . See also:Nauck was one of the most distinguished textual critics of his See also:day, although, like P . H . See also:Peerlkamp, he was fond of altering a See also:text in accordance with what he thought the author must, or ought to, have written . The most important of his writings, all of which See also:deal with Greek See also:language and literature (especially the tragedians) are the following: See also:Euripides, Tragedies and Fragments (1854, 3rd ed., 1871); Studia Euripidea (1859–1862); Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1856, last ed., 1889), his See also:chief See also:work; See also:Index to the Fragments (1892); text of See also:Sophocles (1867) : revised edition of See also:Schneidewin's annotated See also:NAUCRATIS Sophocles (1856, &c.) ; texts of See also:Homer, Odyssey (1874, and Iliad (1877–1879) ; the fragments of See also:Aristophanes of See also:Byzantium (1848), still indispensable; Porphyrius of See also:Tyre (186o, 2nd ed., 1886); lamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica (1884) ; Lexikon Vindobonense (1867), a meagre compilation of the 14th or 15th See also:century . See memoir by T . Zielinski, in See also:Bursian's Biographisches Jahrbuch (1894), and J . E . See also:Sandys, See also:History of Classical Scholarship, iii . (1908), pp . 149-152 . |
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