Franz Skutsch (6 January 1865 – 29 September 1912) was a German classical philologist and

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born in

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. He was the father of classical philologist Otto Skutsch (1906–1990). He studied classical

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and

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at the Universities of

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and Breslau, where he was a student of

Georg Wissowa Georg Otto August Wissowa (17 June 1859 – 11 May 1931) was a German classical philologist born in Neudorf, near Breslau. Education and career Wissowa studied classical philology under August Reifferscheid at the University of Bresl ...

(1859–1931). In 1888 he earned his doctorate at the

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, later obtaining his habilitation at Breslau in 1890. In 1896 he became a full professor at the University of Breslau and the successor to Friedrich Marx (1859–1941). Skutsch is remembered for his expert linguistic/philological treatment of the Roman

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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 ...

, being the author of the acclaimed "''Plautinisches und Romanisches''" (1892). With linguist Paul Kretschmer (1866–1956) he was co-founder of the journal ''Glotta''. He was an honorary member of the ''Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Athen'' (Society of Sciences in

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), and a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy.

Selected written works

* ''Plautinisches und Romanisches. Forschungen zur lateinischen Grammatik und Metrik'' (Plautine and Romanesque; Research on

Latin grammar Latin is a heavily inflected language with largely free word order. Nouns are inflected for number and case; pronouns and adjectives (including participles) are inflected for number, case, and gender; and verbs are inflected for person, numbe ...

and metrics), volume 1, 1892. * ''Aus Vergils Frühzeit'' (From the early days of

Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Rome, ancient Roman poet of the Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Augustan period. He composed three of the most fa ...

), 1901. * ''Gallus und Vergil'' ( Cornelius Gallus and Virgil), 1906. * ''Kleine Schriften'' (Smaller works; edited by Wilhelm Kroll), 1914.

References

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