August Meineke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German classical philologist
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Place of Birth: Soest, Free State of Prussia, Germany
About August Meineke
- Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke (also Augustus Meineke; German: ['ma?n?k?]; 8 December 1790 – 12 December 1870), German classical scholar, was born at Soest in the Duchy of Westphalia.
- He was father-in-law to philologist Theodor Bergk.He obtained his education at the University of Leipzig as a student of Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann.
- After holding an educational post at Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), he was director of the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin from 1826 to 1856.
- In 1830 he became a member of the Berlin Academy.
- He died in Berlin on 12 December 1870.He excelled in conjectural criticism, the comic writers and Alexandrine poets being his favourite authors.
- He was the first scholar since Richard Bentley to distinguish himself in the critical analyses of Menander and Philemon.
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