JOHANN GOTTFRIED

STALLBAUM (1793-1861)  , German classical scholar, was born at Zaasch, near Delitzsch in Saxony, on the 25th of September 1793 . From 1820 until his death on the 24th of January 1861 Stallbaum was connected with the Thomasschule at Leipzig, from 1835 as rector . In 1840 he was also appointed extraordinary professor in the university . His reputation rests upon his work on Plato, of which he published two complete editions: the one (1821-1825) a revised text with critical apparatus, the other (1827-186o) containing exhaustive prolegomena and commentary written in excellent Latin, a fundamental contribution to Platonic exegesis . A separate edition of the Parmenides (1839), with the commentary of Proclus, deserves mention . Stallbaum also edited the commentaries of Eustathius on the Iliad and Odyssey, and the Grammaticae latinae institutiones of Thomas Ruddiman . See C . H . Lipsius in the Osterprogramm of the Thomasschule (1861) ; R . Hoche in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, vol. xxxv .