See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB See also:

• FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB WELCKER (1784-1868)

WELCKER (1784-1868)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German philologist and archaeologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• GRUNBERG

Grunberg in the See also:

• GRAND

grand duchy of See also:

• HESSE
• HESSE (Lat. Hessia, Ger. Hessen)

Hesse . Having studied classical See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology at the university of See also:

• GIESSEN

Giessen, he was appointed (1803) See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master in the high school, an See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office which he combined with that of lecturer at the university . In 1806 he journeyed to See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, and was for more than a See also:

• YEAR

year private See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome in the See also:

• FAMILY

family of Wilhelm von See also:

• HUMBOLDT, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEXANDER, BARON
• HUMBOLDT, KARL WILHELM VON (1767-1835)

Humboldt, who became his friend and correspondent . See also:

• WELCKER, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB (1784-1868)

Welcker returned to Giessen in 1808, and resuming his school-teaching and university lectures was in the following year appointed the first See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek literature and See also:

• ARCHAEOLOGY (from Gr. &pxa1a, ancient things, and Xoyos, theory or science)

archaeology at that or any German university . After serving as a volunteer in the See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign of 1814 he went to See also:

• COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen to edit the See also:

• POSTHUMOUS

posthumous papers of the Danish archaeologist Georg Zoega (1755-1809), and published his See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography, Zoegas Leben (Stutt . 1819) . His liberalism in politics having brought him into conflict with the university authorities of Giessen, he exchanged that university for See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen in 1816, and three years later received a See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair at the new university of See also:

• BONN

Bonn, where he established the See also:

• ART

art museum and the library, of which he became the first librarian . In 1841-1843 he travelled in See also:

• GREECE

Greece and Italy (cf. his Tagebuch, See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, 1865), retired from the librarianship in 1854, and in 1861 from his professorship, but continued to reside at Bonn until his See also:

• DEATH

death . Welcker was a See also:

• PIONEER

pioneer in the See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field of archaeology, and was one of the first to insist, in opposition to the narrow methods of the older Hellenists, on the See also:

• NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity of co-ordinating the study of Greek art and See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion with philology . Besides See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• WORK

work on See also:

• ARISTOPHANES
• ARISTOPHANES (c. 448–385 B.e.1)

Aristophanes, See also:

• PINDAR (Gr. HivSapos, c. 522–443 B.c.)

Pindar, and See also:

• SAPPHO (7th–6th centuries B.C.)

Sappho, whose See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character he vindicated, he edited See also:

• ALCMAN, or ALCMAEON (the former being the Doric form of the name)

Alcman (1815), Hipponax (1817), Theognis (1826) and the Theogony of See also:

• HESIOD

Hesiod (1865), and published a Sylloge epigrammalum Graecorum (Bonn, 1828) . His Griechische Gatterlehre (3 vols., Gottingen, 1857-1862) may be regarded as the first scientific See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on Greek religion . Among his See also:

• WORKS

works on Greek literature the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief are See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Aschyleische Trilogie (1824, 6), Der epische Zyklus See also:

• ODER (Lat. Viadua; Slavonic, Vjodr)

oder die Homerischen Gedichte (2 vols .

1835, 49), Die griechischen Tragodien mit Riicksicht auf den epischen Zyklus geordnet (3 vols., 1839--1841) . His See also:

• EDITIONS

editions and biography of Zoega, his Zeitschrift See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur Geschichte and Auslegung der See also:

• ALIEN (Lat. alienus)

alien Kunst (Gottingen, 1817, 8) and his Alte Denkmdler (5 vols., 1849-1864) contain his views on See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient art . See Kekul6, Das Leben F . G . Welckers (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 188o) ; W. von Humboldts Briefe an Welcker (ed . R . See also:

• HAYM, RUDOLF (1821-1901)

Haym, Berlin, 1859) ; J . E . See also:

• SANDYS, FREDERICK (1832-1904)
• SANDYS, GEORGE (1578-1644)
• SANDYS, SIR EDWIN (1561-1629)

Sandys, See also:

• HISTORY

History of Classical Scholarship (vol. iii., pp . 216, 7, See also:

• CAM (CAO), DIOGO (fl. 1480-1486)

Cam-See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge, 1908) .