Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel (; September 27, 1820March 8, 1878), German
classical scholar
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, was born at
Ludwigsburg in the
Kingdom of Württemberg. In 1849 he was appointed extraordinary, in 1857 ordinary professor in the
university of Tübingen
The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (; ), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The University of Tübingen is one of eleven German Excellenc ...
, which post he held till his death.
Works
Teuffel's most important work was his ''Geschichte der römischen Litteratur'' (1870); revisions by
Ludwig Schwabe,
Wilhelm Kroll and
Franz Skutsch carried this to a 6th–7th edition (1913–1920).
An English translation of the 5th edition by George Charles Winter Warr was published in 1891–1892, as ''Teuffel's History of Roman Literature''. The
''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition described Teuffel's history as "written in an unattractive style" but "indispensable to the student" especially for its "bibliographical information", and Warr's translation is described in the 1996 ''
Oxford Classical Dictionary'' as "still useful on details".
After the death of
August Pauly, the editor of the well-known ''
Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
The Pauly encyclopedias or the Pauly-Wissowa family of encyclopedias, are a set of related encyclopedias on Greco-Roman world, Greco-Roman classical studies, topics and scholarship. The first of these, or (1839–1852), was begun by compiler A ...
'', Teuffel, at first assisted by
Ernst Christian Walz, undertook the completion of the work, to which he also contributed numerous articles.
He was also the author of
*"Prolegomena zur Chronologie der horazischen Geschichte" (in ''Zeitschrift für die Altertumswissenschaft'', 1842)
*''Charakteristik des Horaz'' (Leipzig, 1842)
*''Horaz, eine litterar-historische Übersicht'' (Tübingen, 1843),
and of editions of
*''
The Clouds'' of
Aristophanes
Aristophanes (; ; ) was an Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek Ancient Greek comedy, comic playwright from Classical Athens, Athens. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today. The majority of his surviving play ...
(1856)
*''
The Persians'' of
Aeschylus
Aeschylus (, ; ; /524 – /455 BC) was an ancient Greece, ancient Greek Greek tragedy, tragedian often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is large ...
(1866).
His ''Studien und Charakteristiken'' (1871; 2nd ed., 1889) contain valuable contributions to the history of Greek and Roman literature.
Notes
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External links
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''History of Roman Literature''(English translation) at the Montclair Electronic Text Archive
1820 births
1878 deaths
German classical scholars
German encyclopedists
People from Ludwigsburg
People from the Kingdom of Württemberg
Academic staff of the University of Tübingen
German male non-fiction writers
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