Hermann Bonitz (29 July 181425 July 1888), German scholar, was born at

Langensalza Bad Langensalza (; until 1956: Langensalza) is a spa town of 17,500 inhabitants in the Unstrut-Hainich district, Thuringia, central Germany. Geography Location Bad Langensalza is located in the Thuringian Basin, the fertile lowlands along t ...

Prussian Saxony The Province of Saxony (german: link=no, Provinz Sachsen), also known as Prussian Saxony () was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Free State of Prussia from 1816 until 1944. Its capital was Magdeburg. It was formed by the merge ...

. Having studied 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 ...

under G. Hermann and at

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under Böckh and Lachmann, he became successively teacher at the Blochmann-Institut in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

(1836), ''Oberlehrer'' at the

Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium The Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium (or Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium) was a secondary school ( ''Gymnasium'') in Berlin. History The school originated from a Realschule founded by the Pietist Johann Julius Hecker in 1747, the first secondary school ...

(1838) and the

Graues Kloster The Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, located in suburban Schmargendorf, Berlin, is an independent school with a humanistic profile, known as one of the most prestigious schools in Germany. Founded by the Evangelical Church in West Be ...

(1840) in Berlin, professor at the gymnasium at Stettin (Szczecin) (1842), professor at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich h ...

(1849), member of the

Imperial Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

(1854), member of the council of education (1864), and director of the Graues-Kloster-Gymnasium (1867). He retired in 1888, and died in that year at Berlin. He took great interest in higher education, and was chiefly responsible for the system of teaching and examination in use in the high schools of

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...

after 1882. But it is as a commentator on

Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institutio ...

and

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical Greece, Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatet ...

that he is best known outside Germany. His most important works in this connection are: *''Disputationes Platonicae Duae'' (1837); ''Platonische Studien'' (3rd edition, 1886). *''Observationes Criticae in Aristotelis Libros Metaphysicos'' (1842). *''Observationes Criticae in Aristotelis quae feruntur Magna Moralia et Ethica Eudemia'' (1844). *''Alexandri Aphrodisiensis Commentarius in Libros Metaphysicos Aristotelis'' (1847). *''Aristotelis Metaphysica'' (1848–1849). *''Über die Kategorien des A.'' (1853). *''Aristotelische Studien'' (1862–1867). *''Index Aristotelicus'' (1870). Other works: *''Über den Ursprung der homerischen Gedichte'' (5th edition, 1881). *''Beiträge zur Erklärung des Thukydides'' (1854), ''des Sophokles'' (1856–57). He also wrote largely on classical and educational subjects, mainly for the '' Zeitschrift für die österreichischen Gymnasien''. A full list of his writings is given in the obituary notice by

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 be ...

in the ''Biographisches Jahrbuch fr Altertumskunde'' (1890).

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