August Ferdinand Naeke (15 May 1788, in Frauenstein – 12 September 1838, in

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

) was a German

classical philologist Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...

. He studied classical philology at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December 1409 by Frederick I, Electo ...

as a pupil of

Gottfried Hermann Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann (28 November 1772 – 31 December 1848) was a German classical scholar and philologist. He published his works under the name Gottfried Hermann or its Latin equivalent . Biography He was born in Leipzig. Entering ...

, receiving his doctorate in 1810. After graduation, he worked as a teacher at the Pädagogium of the

Francke Foundations The Francke Foundations (Franckesche Stiftungen), also known as Glauchasche Anstalten were founded in 1695 in Halle (Saale), Halle, Germany as a Christian, social and educational work by August Hermann Francke The Francke Foundations are today ...

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. In 1817 he became an associate professor of classical philology, and during the following year, relocated to the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

, where in 1820 he obtained a full professorship.

Richard Hoche Richard Gottfried Hoche (28 September 1834 – 30 March 1906) was a German classical scholar and head teacher. He contributed approximately 200 entries to the German Dictionary of National Biography ''(Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie)''. Life Ric ...

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In:

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(ADB). Band 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, S. 202 f. He is most famous today for having observed that in epic hexameters, it is rare to have a word end a spondaic fourth foot (unless this word is a proclitic that adheres closely to the word beginning the fifth foot, or the fifth foot begins with an enclitic). This is known as Naeke's Law, which he explained in "Callimachi Hecale," ''Rheinisches Museum'' 3 (1835) 509-68.

Published works

He lectured on Greek and Latin playwrights and poets, especially

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 ...

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 ...

Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus ( ; 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andro ...

Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus (; ), known as Catullus (), was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic. His surviving works remain widely read due to their popularity as teaching tools and because of their personal or sexual themes. Life ...

and

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), Suetonius, Life of Horace commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). Th ...

, and taught classes on the literary history of the Greeks and Romans, as well as on the metrics and poetics of the Romans. His best written effort was a monograph on the epic Greek poet Choerilus, titled ''Choerili Samii quae supersunt, collegit et illustravit'' (1817). The following is a list of his other published works: * ''Schedae criticae de Pleiade Tragicorum graecorum'' (1812). * ''De Battaro Valerii Catonis'' (1828); On Valerius Cato.
''De allitteratione sermonis Latini''
(1829), in ''Rheinisches Museum für Philologie'', III, p. 324—418. * ''Callimachi Hecale'' (On

Callimachus Callimachus (; ; ) was an ancient Greek poet, scholar, and librarian who was active in Alexandria during the 3rd century BC. A representative of Ancient Greek literature of the Hellenistic period, he wrote over 800 literary works, most of which ...

; 6 parts, 1834–37) in: ''Rheinisches Museum für Philologie''. ** Published posthumously: * ''Wallfahrt nach Sessenheim. Die ersten Nachforschungen über das Liebesidyll von Goethe und Friederike'' (1840) edited by

Karl August Varnhagen von Ense Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (21 February 1785 in Düsseldorf – 10 October 1858 in Berlin) was a German biographer, diplomat and soldier. Life and career He was born in Düsseldorf, the younger brother of Rosa Maria Varnhagen, a noted poet, ...

– Pilgrimage to

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. The first research on the love idyll of

Goethe Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...

and

Friederike Friederike is a feminine given name which may refer to: People *Friederike Sophie Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709–1758), Prussian princess and older sister of Frederick the Great *Princess Friederike Luise of Pr ...

. * ''Augusti Ferdinandi Naekii opuscula philologica'' (2 volumes, 1842–45) edited by

Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (4 November 1784 – 17 December 1868) was a German classical philologist and archaeologist. Biography Welcker was born at Grünberg, Hesse-Darmstadt. Having studied classical philology at the University of Giesse ...

. * ''Carmina Valerii Catonis cum A. F. Naekii annotationibus'' (1847) edited by

Ludwig Schopen Ludwig Schopen (17 October 1799, in Düsseldorf – 22 November 1867, in Bonn) was a German classical philologist and Byzantinist. Biography As a gymnasium student in his hometown of Düsseldorf, he was encouraged by Karl Wilhelm Kortüm and ...

. * ''August Ferdinand Näke über die thebanische Tetralogie des Aeschylus'' (1872) edited by

Friedrich Ritschl Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (6 April 1806 – 9 November 1876), a first cousin of theologian Albrecht Ritschl, was a German scholar best known for his studies of Plautus. Biography Ritschl was born in Großvargula, in present-day Thuringia. Hifami ...

– On the Theban triad of Aeschylus. With Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, he was editor of the journal ''Rheinisches Museum für Philologie''.August Ferdinand Naeke
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