August Meineke

Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke

Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke (also Augustus Meineke; Template:IPA; 8 December 1790Template:Snd12 December 1870), German classical scholar, was born at Soest in the Duchy of Westphalia. He was father-in-law to philologist Theodor Bergk.<ref name=SA>A History of Classical Scholarship: The Eighteenth Century in Germany by John Edwin Sandys</ref>

He obtained his education at the University of Leipzig as a student of Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann. After holding an educational post at Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), he was director of the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin from 1826 to 1856.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |

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He excelled in conjectural criticism, the comic writers and Alexandrine poets being his favourite authors.<ref name="EB1911"/> He was the first scholar since Richard Bentley to distinguish himself in the critical analyses of Menander and Philemon.<ref name=SA/>

Principal works

• Template:Interlanguage link (1839–1857, the first volume of which contains an essay on the development of Greek comedy and an account of its chief representatives)
• Analecta alexandrina (1843, containing the fragments of Rhianus, Euphorion, Alexander of Aetolia, and Parthenius).
• Babrii Fabulae Aesopeae with Karl Lachmann, (1845).
• Strabo (including Strabonis Geographica 1852 and Vindiciarum Strabonianarum liber, 1852).
• Alciphronis rhetoris Epistolae (edition of Alciphron, 1853).
• Stobaeus (1855–1863; including Florilegium 1855 <ref>Google Books Florilegium</ref> and Ioannis Stobaei Eclogarum physicarum et ethicarum libri duo, 1860).
• Poetarum comicorum Graecorum fragmenta, (1855; with Friedrich Heinrich Bothe).
• Theocritus, Bion, Moschus (3rd edition, 1856).
• Athenaeus of Naucratis (1858–1867); including Deipnosophistae e recognitione A. Meineke (1858).
• Aristophanis Comoediae, (1860, edition of Aristophanes' comedies).<ref name=WC>WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by August Meineke</ref>
• Callimachus (1861).
• Sophoclis Oedipus Coloneus cum scholiis graecis. Accedunt Analecta Sophoclea (1863).<ref>WorldCat Title Sophoclis Oedipus Coloneus, etc</ref>
• Published in English: "The fragments of attic comedy after Meineke, Bergk, and Kock", 1957 by J M Edmonds (August Meineke; Theodor Bergk; Theodor Kock).

References

• Monographs by F. Ranke (1871), H. Sauppe (1872) and E. Förstemann in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, XXI. (1885); also Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol. (1908), iii. 117.

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