Ernst Friedrich Poppo
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Ernst Friedrich Poppo | |
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| Born | 13 August 1794 |
| Died | 6 November 1866 (aged 72) |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | classical scholar |
Ernst Friedrich Poppo (13 August 1794 – 6 November 1866), German classical scholar and schoolmaster, was born at Guben in Brandenburg. He studied at Leipzig.[1]
In 1818 he was appointed director of the gymnasium at Frankfurt an der Oder, where he died on 6 November 1866, having resigned his post three years before.[2]
Poppo was an extremely successful teacher and organizer, and in a few years doubled the number of pupils at the gymnasium. He is chiefly known, however, for his exhaustive and complete edition of Thucydides in four parts (11 vols., 1821-1840), containing:
- A prolegomenon on Thucydides as an historian and on his language and style (English translation by George Burges, 1837), accompanied by historical and geographical essays[3]
- The text with scholia and critical notes
- A commentary on the text and scholia
- Indices and appendices.[2]
For the ordinary student a smaller edition (1843–1851) was prepared; this edition was revised after the author's death by Johann Matthias Stahl (1875–1889).[2]
References
- ^ Sandys, John Edwin (17 Feb 2011). A History of Classical Scholarship: The Eighteenth Century in Germany and the Nineteenth Century in Europe and the United States of America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-1-108-02708-3. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Thomas, Joseph (1 January 2013). The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. New York: Cosimo, Inc. p. 1828. ISBN 978-1-616-40073-6. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Poppo, Ernst Friedrich". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 91.
- Rudolf Schwarze in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (see ADB:Poppo, Ernst Friedrich in German Wikisource) and authorities there referred to.
