Johann August Nauck

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Johann August Nauck

Johann August Nauck (18 September 1822 – 3 August 1892) was a German classical scholar and critic. His chief work was the Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (TrGF).

Biography

Nauck was born at Auerstedt in present-day Thuringia. He studied at the University of Halle as a student of Gottfried Bernhardy and Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier. In 1853 he became an adjunct under August Meineke at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. After a brief stint as an educator at the Grauen Kloster (1858), he relocated to St. Petersburg, where in 1869, he was appointed professor of Greek at the historical-philological institute.<ref>ADB: Nauck, August @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie</ref>

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Published works

The most important of his writings and translations, all of which deal with Greek language and literature (especially the tragedians) are as follows:

• Fragments of Aristophanes of Byzantium (1848).
• Euripidis Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum fragmenta; ex recensione Augusti Nauckii, (1854).<ref>Archive.org Euripidis Tragoediae</ref> (Euripides, tragedies and fragments)
• Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1856, last edition, 1983), His chief work — it was intended as a counterpart to Meineke's "comedy fragments", (Template:Interlanguage link).<ref name=ND/>
• Revised edition of Schneidewin's annotated Sophocles (1856, etc.)
• Porphyrius of Tyre (1860, 2nd ed., 1886); "Porphyrii philosophi Platonici opuscula selecta".
• Lexikon Vindobonense (1867).<ref>WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by August Nauck</ref>
• texts of Homer, Odyssey (1874) and Iliad (1877–1879); published as "Homerica carmina" (volume I. Ilias; volume II. Odyssea).<ref>WorldCat Title Homerica carmina</ref>
• Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica (1884).<ref name="EB1911"/>

External links

• Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta recensuit Augustus Nauck, Lipsiae sumptibus et typis B. G. Teubneri, 1856.
  • Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta recensuit Augustus Nauck, editio secunda, Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1889.

Further reading

• Memoir by T. Zielinski, in Bursian's Biographisches Jahrbuch (1894), and J.E. Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, iii. (1908), pp. 149–152.