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FRANZ See also:LUDWIG CARL See also:FRIEDRICH See also:PASSOW (1786-1833)  , See also:German classical See also:scholar and lexicographer, was See also:born at See also:Ludwigslust in See also:Mecklenburg-See also:Schwerin on the loth of See also:September 1786 . In 1807 he was appointed to the professorship of See also:Greek literature at the See also:Weimar gymnasium by See also:Goethe, whose acquaintance he had made during a See also:holiday tour . In 1815 he became See also:professor of See also:ancient literature in the university of See also:Breslau, where he continued to reside until his See also:death on the 11th of See also:March 1833 . His advocacy of gymnastic exercises, in which he himself took See also:part, met with violent opposition and caused a See also:quarrel known as the " Breslauer Turnfehde." See also:Passow's See also:great See also:work was his Handworterbuch der griechischen Sprache (1819-1824), originally a revision of J . G . See also:Schneider's See also:lexicon, which appeared in the See also:fourth edition (1831) as an See also:independent work, without Schneider's name (new ed. by Cronert, 19o1) . It formed the basis of See also:Liddell and See also:Scott's lexicon . Other See also:works by him are Grundzuge der griech. and rom . Literatur- and Kunstgeschichte (2nd. ed., 1829) and See also:editions of See also:Persius, See also:Longus, See also:Tacitus Germania, See also:Dionysius Periegetes, and See also:Musaeus . His See also:miscellaneous writings have been collected in his Opuscula academica (1835) and Vermischte Schriften (1843) . See See also:Franz Passow's Leben and Briefe (1839), by L. and A . Wachler, which contains a full bibliography .

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