Karl Wilhelm Piderit (20 March 1815, in

Witzenhausen Witzenhausen () is a small town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in northeastern Hesse, Germany. It was granted town rights in 1225, and until 1974 was a district seat. The University of Kassel maintains a satellite campus in Witzenhausen, which offer ...

– 27 May 1875, in

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) 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, ...

and educator. From 1833 he studied at the

University of Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg () is a public research university located in Marburg, Germany. It was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Prote ...

, receiving his doctorate with a dissertation on the rhetorician

Hermagoras of Temnos Hermagoras of Temnos (, fl. 1st century BC) was an Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek rhetorician of the Rhodes, Rhodian school and teacher of rhetoric in Rome, where the Suda states he died at an advanced age. He appears to have tried to excel as an o ...

, titled ''Commentatio De Hermagora rhetora''. In 1837 he became an apprentice-teacher at the gymnasium in Hersfeld, and two years later began teaching classes at a grammar school in

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. In 1844 he returned to Hersfeld as a teacher, and from 1850 performed similar duties at the gymnasium in

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. In 1853 he was appointed director of the Hanau gymnasium, a position he maintained up until his death in 1875.ADB:Piderit, Karl Wilhelm
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Published works

He is best remembered for his scholarly editions of

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises tha ...

, of which, he published: * ''

De oratore ''De Oratore'' (''On the Orator'') is a dialogue written by Cicero in 55 BC. It is set in 91 BC, when Lucius Licinius Crassus dies, just before the Social War and the civil war between Marius and Sulla, during which Marcus Antonius, the oth ...

'' (1862; 6th edition, 3 volumes 1886–90). * '' Partitiones oratoriae'' (2nd edition, 1867). * ''

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'' (3rd edition, 1889). Piderit was also the author of: * ''De Apollodoro Pergameno et Theodoro Gadarensi rhetoribus'', 1842 – On

Apollodorus of Pergamon Apollodorus () of Pergamon was a rhetorician of ancient Greece who was the author of a school of rhetoric called after him ''Apollodoreios Hairesis'' (Ἀπολλοδωρειος αἵρεσις), which was subsequently opposed by the school establi ...

and Theodorus of Gadara. * ''Sophokleische Studien'' (2 parts, 1856–57) –

Sophocles Sophocles ( 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. was an ancient Greek tragedian known as one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those ...

studies Following the death of theologian August Friedrich Christian Vilmar in 1868, Piderit released several editions of his works: * ''Ein Weihnachtsspiel aus einer Handschrift des 15. Jahrhunderts'', 1869 (edition of Vilmar) – A Christmas play from a manuscript of the 15th century. * ''Lebensbilder deutscher Dichter'', 1869 (edition of Vilmar) – Biography of a German poet. * ''Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli: nebst einem Anhang: Das evangelische Kirchenlied'', 1869 (edition of Vilmar) –

Martin Luther Martin Luther ( ; ; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, Theology, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and former Order of Saint Augustine, Augustinian friar. Luther was the seminal figure of the Reformation, Pr ...

Philip Melanchthon Philip Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerdt; 16 February 1497 – 19 April 1560) was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the L ...

Huldrych Zwingli Huldrych or Ulrich Zwingli (1 January 1484 – 11 October 1531) was a Swiss Christian theologian, musician, and leader of the Reformation in Switzerland. Born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swis ...

: with an appendix: An evangelical hymn. * ''Die Augsburgische Confession'', 1870 (edition of Vilmar) – The

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. * ''Die Lehre vom geistlichen Amt'', 1870 (edition of Vilmar) – The doctrine of the ministry. * ''Die genieperiode. Ein vortrag von A.F.C. Vilmar. Supplement zu des verfassers Literaturgeschichte'', 1872 – The genius period: a lecture of August Friedrich Christian Vilmar: Supplement to the author's literary history. * ''Lehrbuch der Pastoraltheologie'', 1872 (edition of Vilar) – Textbook of

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