Reinhold Klotz (13 March 1807 – 10 August 1870) was a German classical scholar.

Biography

Klotz was born in

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near

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in the

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on 13 March 1807. He studied at the

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and became assistant professor there in 1832. In 1849 he became a full professor in succession to

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, and held this post until his death in Kleinschocher (

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) on 10 August 1870. Klotz was a man of unwearied industry, and devoted special attention to

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literature. During the

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and the following years, he showed himself a strong

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Works

He was the author of editions of several classical authors, of which the most important were: the complete works of ''Cicero'' (2nd ed. 1869–1874); ''Clement of Alexandria'' (1831–1834); ''Euripides'' (1841–1867), in continuation of August Julius Edmund Pflugk's edition, but unfinished; ''Terence'' (1838–1840), with the commentaries of

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and . Mention should also be made of ''Handwörterbuch der lateinischen Sprache'' (5th ed., 1874); ''Römische Litteraturgeschichte'' (1847), of which only the introductory volume appeared; an edition of the treatise ''Liber de Graecae linguae particulis'' (1835–1842) of Matthaeus Deverius (or Devares), a learned

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(c. 1500–1570), and corrector of the

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manuscripts in the

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; the posthumous ''Index Ciceronianus'' (1872) and ''Handbuch der lateinischen Stilistik'' (1874). From 1831 to 1855 Klotz was editor of the ''Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie'' (Leipzig). With Friedrich Lübker and Ernst Eduard Hudemann, he worked on a Latin dictionary (1847–1857). A memoir by his son Richard will be found in the ''Jahrbücher'' for 1871, pp. 154–163.

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