August Reifferscheid
German classical philologist
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| Intro | German classical philologist | ||
| A.K.A. | August Karl Wilhelm Reifferscheid | ||
| A.K.A. | August Karl Wilhelm Reifferscheid | ||
| Places | Germany | ||
| was | Historian Anthropologist Literary historian Translator Philologist | ||
| Work field | Academia Literature Social science | ||
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| Birth | 3 October 1835, Bonn | ||
| Death | 10 November 1887Strasbourg (aged 52 years) | ||
| Star sign | Libra | ||
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Biography
Karl Wilhelm August Reifferscheid (3 October 1835 – 10 November 1887) was a German archaeologist and classical philologist.
Biography
He was born and educated in Bonn. He received a traveling fellowship in archaeology from the University of Bonn, and spent 1861–66 mostly in Italy, part of the time fulfilling a request by the Vienna Academy to do archival research for the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum. He was professor at Breslau (1868–85), and beginning in 1885, a professor at the University of Strassburg (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Universität).
Reifferscheid died in Strassburg, Alsace-Lorraine.
Works
His works include:
- Suetoni præter Cæsarum Libros Reliquiæ (1860); the standard edition of these fragments.
- Bibliotheca Patrum Latinorum Italica (2 volumes, 1865–72).
- Arnobii Adversvs nationes libri VII (1875); main author, Arnobius.
- An edition of Anna Comnena's Alexiad (1878).
- A partial edition of Tertullian, Quinti Septimi Florentis Tertulliani (edited by Georg Wissowa, 1890).
- HathiTrust Digital Library published works