Heinrich Schenkl (29 January 1859,

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– 3 December 1919,

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) was an Austrian

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. He was the son of classical philologist

Karl Schenkl Karl Schenkl (Brno, 11 December 1827 Graz, 20 September 1900) was an Austrian classical philologist. Biography Schenkl studied classical philology and law from 1845 to 1849 at the University of Vienna. After 1850 he taught at various gymnasiums ...

. From 1876 to 1880 he studied classical philology,

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and philosophy at the

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, where his instructors included

Theodor Gomperz Theodor Gomperz (March 29, 1832August 29, 1912), Austrian philosopher and classical scholar, was born at Brno (Brünn). Biography Gomperz studied at Brno and at Vienna under Hermann Bonitz. Graduating at the University of Vienna in 1867 he beca ...

and Wilhelm von Hartel. For several years he worked as a gymnasium teacher in Vienna, and in 1892 became an associate professor at the

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. From 1896 onward, he served as a full professor at Graz, being named university dean in 1899. In 1917 he appointed professor of classical philology at the University of Vienna.Schenkl, Heinrich (1859-1919)
Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina

Published works

Schenkl was editor of the three volume ''Bibliotheca patrum latinorum britannica'' (1891–1908). The following is a list of his noted original works and other editions: * ''Plautinische studien'', 1881 – Plautine studies. * ''Zur Textesgeschichte der Eclogen des Calpurnius und Nemesianus'', 1883 – Textual history on the

eclogue An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics. Overview The form of the word ''eclogue'' in contemporary English developed from Middle English , which came from Latin , wh ...

Titus Calpurnius Siculus Titus Calpurnius Siculus was a Roman bucolic poet. Eleven eclogues have been handed down to us under his name, of which the last four, from metrical considerations and express manuscript testimony, are now generally attributed to Nemesianus, who li ...

and

Nemesianus Marcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus was a Roman poet thought to have been a native of Carthage and flourished about AD 283. He was a popular poet at the court of the Roman emperor Carus ( Historia Augusta, ''Carus'', 11). Works The works bel ...

. * ''Die Epiktetischen Fragmente. Eine Untersuchung zur Überlieferungsgeschichte der griechischen Florilegien'', 1888 –

Epictetus Epictetus (; grc-gre, Ἐπίκτητος, ''Epíktētos''; 50 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present-day Pamukkale, in western Turkey) and lived in Rome until his banishment, when ...

fragments: a study on the traditional history of Greek

florilegium In medieval Latin, a ' (plural ') was a compilation of excerpts or sententia from other writings and is an offshoot of the commonplacing tradition. The word is from the Latin ''flos'' (flower) and '' legere'' (to gather): literally a gathering of ...

. As an editor: * ''Florilegia duo graeca'', 1888. * ''Epicteti Dissertationes ab Arriano digestae'', 1894. * ''Themistii in Aristotelis Physica paraphrasis'', 1900. * ''Sancti Ambrosii Opera. Pars Quarta'', 1902 in:

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. * ''Marci Antonini imperatoris in semet ipsum libri XII'', 1913. * ''Themistii Orationes quae supersunt''; (1965 ff.) edition of

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, part of series "

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