Carl Gustav Löwe (18 February 1852 in Grimma – 16 December 1883 in

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

) was a German classical philologist and

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. He studied classical philology at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), 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 Decemb ...

as a pupil of

Friedrich Ritschl Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (6 April 1806 – 9 November 1876) was a German scholar best known for his studies of Plautus. Biography Ritschl was born in Großvargula, in present-day Thuringia. His family, in which culture and poverty were hereditar ...

. From 1875 he carried out Plautine research in Italy, and in 1878 traveled to Spain in order to prepare materials for the ''Bibliotheca patrum latinorum'' on behalf of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 1879 he returned to Leipzig, and during the following year, moved to Göttingen, where he served as curator of the

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. He died on 16 December 1883 (age 31) due to consequences of a falling accident.

Published works

* ''Quaestionum de glossariorum Latinorum fontibus et usu particula commentatio'', 1875. * ''Prodromus corporis glossariorum Latinorum: Quaestiones de glossariorum Latinorum fontibus et usu'', 1876. * ''Analecta Plautina'' (with Georg Goetz, Fritz Schöll, 1877). * ''Exempla scripturae visigoticae 40 tabulis expressa'' (with Paul Ewald, 1883). * ''Glossae nominum'' (edited by Georg Goetz, 1884).Gustav Löwe
de.Wikisource * ''Bibliotheca patrum latinorum hispaniensis'', (edited by

Wilhelm von Hartel Wilhelm August Ritter von Hartel (28 May 1839 – 14 January 1907) was an Austrian philologist specializing in classical studies. Biography He was born at Hof, in Moravia, and studied at the University of Vienna (1859–63). He was appointed ...

, 1887).HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works) He also made contributions as an editor to ''T. Macci Plauti Comoediae recensuit instrumento critico et prolegomenis'' (comedies of

Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus (; c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, 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 gen ...

) and the ''Corpus glossariorum Latinorum''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lowe, Gustav 1852 births 1883 deaths People from Grimma Leipzig University alumni German classical philologists German librarians