LUDWIG

See also:

• PRELLER, FRIEDRICH (1804–1878)
• LUDWIG PRELLER (1809–1861)

PRELLER (1809–1861)  , German philologist and antiquarian, was born at Hamburg on the 15th of September 18og . After having studied at Leipzig, Berlin and Gottingen, in 1838 he was appointed to the professorship of philology at Dorpat, which, however, he resigned in 1843 . He afterwards spent some time in Italy, but settled in Jena in 1844, where he became professor in 1846 . In the same year he removed as head librarian to Weimar, where he died on the 21st of June 1861 . His chief works are: Demeter u . Persephone (1837); Griechische Mythologie (1854–1855; 4th ed., by C . Robert, 1887 seq.); and Romische Mythologie (1858; 3rd ed. by H . Jordan, 1881–1883) . He also co-operated with H . Ritter in the preparation of the most useful Historia philosophcae graecae et romanae ex fontium locis contexta (1838; ed . E . Wellmann, 1898) .

He contributed extensively to

Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopadie and Pauly's Realencyklopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft . A complete list of his works will be found in Ausgewahlte Aufsatze aus dem Gebiete der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft (ed . R . Kohler, 1864) . See G . T . Stichling, Ludwig Preller . Eine Gedachtnissrede (Weimar, 1863) ; C . Bursian, Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883) .