Raphael Kühner

German classical philologist and lexicographer
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IntroGerman classical philologist and lexicographer
A.K.A.Raphael Kuhner
A.K.A.Raphael Kuhner
PlacesGermany
wasLexicographer Linguist Philologist Scholar Classical scholar
Work fieldAcademia Literature Social science
Gender
Male
Birth22 March 1802, Gotha, Gotha, Thuringia, Germany
Death16 April 1878Hanover, Hanover region, Lower Saxony, Germany (aged 76 years)
Star signAries
Family
Father:Friedrich Johann Christian Kühner
Education
University of GöttingenGöttingen, Göttingen district, Germany
Ernestinum GothaGotha, Gotha, Germany
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Biography

Raphael Kühner (22 March 1802 – 16 April 1878) was a German classical scholar.

He was born in Gotha, educated at the University of Göttingen, and from 1824 to 1863, taught classes at the lyceum in Hanover.

He published an edition of the Tusculanae Disputationes of Cicero (1829; fifth edition, 1874). His large Greek grammar, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (two volumes, 1834–35), was translated by William Edward Jelf (1842–45). An enlarged third edition in four volumes was produced by Friedrich Wilhelm Blass and Bernhard Gerth (1890–1904). His large Latin grammar, Ausführliche Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache (two volumes, 1877–79), has been reëdited in enlarged form by Friedrich Holzweissig and Carl Stegmann (Hannover, 1912–14). His smaller Greek and Latin grammars passed through many editions.

He died in Hanover.

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