Philipp Karl Buttmann
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Philipp Karl Buttmann (5 December 1764 – 21 June 1829) was a German philologist of French Huguenot ancestry (original family name "Boudemont"), born in Frankfurt am Main.
He was educated in his native town and at the University of Göttingen, where he was a student of Christian Gottlob Heyne. In 1789 he obtained an appointment in the Royal Library of Berlin, and for a period of time, edited Spener's Journal. In 1800 he became a professor at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin, a post he held for eight years. In 1806 he was admitted to the Academy of Sciences as a member of its historical-philological section. In 1811 he became first librarian at the Royal Library.[1][2]
Published works
Buttmann's writings gave a great impetus to the scientific study of the Greek language. His Griechische Grammatik (1792) went through many editions, and was translated into English.[3][4] His Lexilogus, a valuable study on some words of difficulty occurring principally in the poems of Homer and Hesiod, was published in 1818–1825, and was later translated into English and published as Lexilogus: or, a critical examination of the meaning and etymology of numerous Greek works and passages intended principally for Homer and Hesiod (1861).[5][6]
Buttmann's other works were:
- Ausfuhrliche griechische Sprachlehre (2 vols, 1819–1827).
- Mythologus, a collection of essays (1828–1829).
- editions of some classical authors, the most important being Demosthenes' In Midiam (1823).[3]
- the continuation of Spalding's edition of Quintilian.[7]
References
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- ^ ADB: Buttmann, Philipp Karl @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- ^ A History of Classical Scholarship: by John Edwin Sandys.
- ^ a b WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by Ph Buttmann
- ^ OCLC WorldCat 'Philipp Buttmann's Griechische Grammatik
- ^ Google Books Lexilogus:
- ^ HathiTrust Digital Library Lexilogus, oder, Beiträge zur griechischen Wort-Erklärung
- ^ A History of Classical Philology by Harry Thurston Peck
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Buttmann, Philipp Karl". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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- 1764 births
- 1829 deaths
- Writers from Frankfurt
- University of Göttingen alumni
- German philologists
- German classical scholars
- German librarians