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ERNST FRIEDRICH POPPO (1794—1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 91 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ERNST FRIEDRICH POPPO (1794—1866)  , German classical scholar and schoolmaster, was born at
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Guben in
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Brandenburg on the 13th of August, 1794 . In 1818 he was appointed director of the gymnasium at
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Frankfort-on-the-Oder, where he died on the 6th of November 1866, having resigned his
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post three years before . Poppo was an extremely successful teacher and organizer, and in a few years doubled the number of pupils at the gymnasium . He is chiefly known, however, for his exhaustive and
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complete edition of Thucydides in four parts (II vols., 1821-1840), containing (i.) prolegomena on Thucydides as an historian and on his language and style (Eng. trans. by G . Burges, 1837), accompanied by
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historical and
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geographical essays; (ii.) text with scholia and critical notes; (iii.) commentary on the text and scholia; (iv.) indices and appendices . For the ordinary student a smaller edition (1843—18511) was prepared, revised after the author's
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death by J . M . Stahl (1875—1889) . See R . Schwarze in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie and authorities there referred to .

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