FRANZ

See also:

• LUDWIG, KARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1816—1895)
• LUDWIG, OTTO (1813-1865)

LUDWIG CARL

See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

FRIEDRICH

See also:

• FRANZ LUDWIG CARL FRIEDRICH PASSOW (1786-1833)

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