Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke (also ''Augustus Meineke''; ; 8 December 179012 December 1870), German

classical scholar 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 literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

, was born at Soest in the Duchy of Westphalia. He was father-in-law to

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

Theodor Bergk.A History of Classical Scholarship: The Eighteenth Century in Germany
by

John Edwin Sandys Sir John Edwin Sandys ( "Sands"; 19 May 1844 – 6 July 1922) was an English classical scholar. Life Born in Leicester, England on 19 May 1844, Sandys was the 4th son of Rev. Timothy Sandys (1803–1871) and Rebecca Swain (1800–1853). Livin ...

He obtained his education 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 student of Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann. After holding an educational post at Danzig (now

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), he was director of the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in

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from 1826 to 1856. In 1830 he became a member of the Berlin Academy. He died in Berlin on 12 December 1870. He excelled in conjectural criticism, the comic writers and Alexandrine poets being his favourite authors. He was the first scholar since Richard Bentley to distinguish himself in the critical analyses of

Menander Menander (; ; c. 342/341 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek scriptwriter and the best-known representative of Athenian Ancient Greek comedy, New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the Cit ...

and Philemon.

Principal works

* ' (1839–1857, the first volume of which contains an essay on the development of

Greek comedy Ancient Greek comedy () was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece; the others being tragedy and the satyr play. Greek comedy was distinguished from tragedy by its happy endings and use of comically ex ...

and an account of its chief representatives) * '' Analecta alexandrina'' (1843, containing the fragments of Rhianus, Euphorion, Alexander of Aetolia, and Parthenius). *
Babrii Fabulae Aesopeae
' with Karl Lachmann, (1845). *

Strabo Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-si ...

(including '' Strabonis Geographica'' 1852 and ''Vindiciarum Strabonianarum liber'', 1852). * ''Alciphronis rhetoris Epistolae'' (edition of Alciphron, 1853). *

Stobaeus Joannes Stobaeus (; ; 5th-century AD), from Stobi in Macedonia (Roman province), Macedonia, was the compiler of a valuable series of extracts from Greek authors. The work was originally divided into two volumes containing two books each. The tw ...

(1855–1863; including ''Florilegium'' 1855 and ''Ioannis Stobaei Eclogarum physicarum et ethicarum libri duo'', 1860). * ''Poetarum comicorum Graecorum fragmenta'', (1855; with Friedrich Heinrich Bothe). * ''

Theocritus Theocritus (; , ''Theokritos''; ; born 300 BC, died after 260 BC) was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry. Life Little is known of Theocritus beyond what can be inferred from his writings ...

, Bion, Moschus'' (3rd edition, 1856). * Athenaeus of Naucratis (1858–1867); including
Deipnosophistae e recognitione A. Meineke
' (1858). * ''Aristophanis Comoediae'', (1860, edition 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 ...

' comedies).WorldCat Identities
Most widely held works by August Meineke * ''

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 ...

'' (1861). * ''Sophoclis Oedipus Coloneus cum scholiis graecis. Accedunt Analecta Sophoclea'' (1863).WorldCat Title
Sophoclis Oedipus Coloneus, etc * Published in English: "The fragments of attic comedy after Meineke, Bergk, and Kock", 1957 by J M Edmonds (August Meineke; Theodor Bergk; Theodor Kock).

References

*Monographs by F. Ranke (1871), H. Sauppe (1872) and E. Förstemann in ''

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'', XXI. (1885); also Sandys, ''Hist. Class. Schol.'' (1908), iii. 117. 1790 births 1870 deaths Scholars from the Kingdom of Prussia People from Soest, Germany German classical scholars German classical philologists Academic staff of Leipzig University Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) Leipzig University alumni {{germany-academic-bio-stub