Franz Passow
Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich Passow (20 September 1786 – 11 March 1833) was a German classical scholar and lexicographer.[1]
Biography
He was born at Ludwigslust in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1807 he was appointed to the professorship of Greek literature at the Weimar gymnasium by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose acquaintance he had made during a holiday tour; his lessons were attended by the young Arthur Schopenhauer. In 1815 he became professor of ancient literature at the University of Breslau, where he continued to live until his death. His endorsement of gymnastic exercises, in which he himself took part, caused a quarrel known as the Breslauer Turnfehde[1] (“Breslau gymnastics feud”).
Works
Passow's great work was his Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache (1819–1824) ("Dictionary of the Greek Language"), originally a revision of Johann Gottlob Schneider's lexicon, which appeared in the fourth edition (1831) as an independent work, without Schneider's name. Other works by Passow are Grundzüge der griech. und röm. Literatur und Kunstgeschichte (“Foundations of Greek and Roman Literature and History of Art”; 2nd ed., 1829) and editions of Persius, Longus, Tacitus's Germania, Dionysius Periegetes, and Musaeus. His miscellaneous writings were collected in Opuscula academica (“Minor academic works”; 1835) and Vermischte Schriften (“Miscellaneous writings”; 1843).[1]
Passow's Greek lexicon was the basis for the Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott.
Further reading
- L. and A. Wachler, Franz Passow's Leben und Briefe (“Franz Passow's Life and Letters”; 1839).
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Passow, Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 890. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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- 1786 births
- 1833 deaths
- People from Ludwigslust
- People from the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- German classical scholars
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- Scholars of Ancient Greek
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- 19th-century lexicographers