Georg Heinrich Lünemann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georg Heinrich Lünemann

German teacher and classical philologist

Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1780

Place of Birth: Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 08-Jan-1830

Profession: teacher, classical scholar, classical philologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Georg Heinrich Lünemann (3 September 1780, Göttingen – 8 January 1830, Göttingen) was a German classical philologist and lexicographer.
His younger brother, Johann Heinrich Christian Lünemann (1787-1827), was also a classical philologist. He studied classical philology at the University of Göttingen, and in 1803 succeeded Georg Friedrich Grotefend as an instructor of Greek and Latin at the gymnasium in Göttingen.
He is best known for his revised editions of Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller's Latin dictionaries.
He also published numerous editions of classical authors for classroom purposes; its authors including: Horace (1818), Virgil (1818), Phaedrus with Avianus, Publilius Syrus and Dionysius Cato (1823), Sallust (1825), Tacitus (1825) and Curtius Rufus (1827).