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The Realencyclopädie ( German for "Practical Encyclopedia "; abbr. RE ) is a series of German encyclopedias on Greco - Roman topics and scholarship .

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12-732: The first edition was the Real-Encyclopädie der Classischen Alterthumswissenschaft in Alphabetischer Ordnung ("Practical Encyclopedia of the Study of Classical Ancient History in Alphabetical Order") originally compiled by August Friedrich Pauly . As the basis for the subsequent Pauly–Wissowa edition, it is also known as the Ur-Pauly . The first volume was published in 1839 but Pauly died in 1845 before

24-532: A German linguist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel ( German: [ˈtɔɪfəl] ; September 27, 1820 – March 8, 1878), German classical scholar , was born at Ludwigsburg in the Kingdom of Württemberg . In 1849 he was appointed extraordinary, in 1857 ordinary professor in the university of Tübingen , which post he held till his death. Teuffel's most important work

36-652: A student of Georg Friedrich Creuzer . Beginning in 1822, he served as rector of the Latin school in Biberach, followed by work as a gymnasium professor in Heilbronn (1828). From 1830 until his death in 1845, he was an educator at the gymnasium in Stuttgart. In 1837 began the first edition of the classical encyclopedia Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft , whose later editions are commonly known as

48-506: The Pauly–Wissowa . Pauly died prior to publication of the fourth volume of the initial edition. After his death, Ernst Christian Walz and Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel continued to edit the encyclopedia (first edition 1837–1852, six volumes). He also published an edition involving the works of the Greek satirist Lucian of Samosata called Lucians Werke (1827–1832). This article on

60-570: The Ancient World between 2002 and 2014. The edition, named after its publisher Brill , comprised a 15-volume series on "Antiquity", a 5-volume series on the "Classical Tradition", index volumes for each series, and 6 volumes of supplements. There are only 6 supplements in the English edition compared with 7 in the German edition, as in the German edition the index to the "Classical Tradition"

72-474: The Study of Classical Ancient History"), more commonly known as the Pauly–Wissowa ( abbr. PW ), was planned for completion by 1900 but work again outlasted its initial editor. Continued under Wilhelm Kroll, Kurt Witte, Karl Mittelhaus, and Konrat Ziegler, the series was not completed until 1972, with supplements added until 1978 and the index in 1980. Each article was written by a recognized specialist in

84-494: The last was completed. Christian Waltz (1802–1857) and Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel completed the 6 volume first edition in 1852. A second edition of the first volume of Pauly's encyclopedia was published by Teuffel in 1861. The revised second volume came out in 1866, with the rest of the work left incomplete. Georg Wissowa began work on a new and more ambitious edition in 1890. Paulys Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft ("Pauly's Practical Encyclopedia of

96-527: The relevant field, but unsurprisingly for a work spanning three generations, the underlying assumptions vary radically with the age of the article. Many early biographies were written by Elimar Klebs , Paul von Rohden , Friedrich Münzer , and Otto Seeck . First Series, A–Q Second Series, R–Z Supplements The size and price of Wissowa's edition being daunting, Konrat Ziegler put out an abridged Der Kleine Pauly ("The Little Pauly"; abbr. KlP ) edition of 5 volumes between 1964 and 1975. Ziegler

108-445: The student" especially for its "bibliographical information", and Warr's translation is described in the 1996 Oxford Classical Dictionary as "still useful on details". After the death of August Pauly , the editor of the well-known Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft , Teuffel, at first assisted by Ernst Christian Walz , undertook the completion of the work, to which he also contributed numerous articles. He

120-450: Was assisted by Walther Sontheimer and Hans Gärtner. Edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, Der Neue Pauly ("The New Pauly") was intended to be a 15-volume intermediate version of the work. The set itself expanded to 18 volumes plus an index, published from 1996 to 2003. From 2004 to 2012, seven more supplement volumes were added. An English edition of Der Neue Pauly was published as Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of

132-634: Was counted as a Supplement. It was edited by Cancik, Schneider, Manfred Landfester, and Christine F. Salazar. August Friedrich Pauly August Friedrich von Pauly ( / ˈ p ɔː l i / ; German: [ˈpaʊli] ; 9 May 1796, in Benningen am Neckar – 2 May 1845, in Stuttgart ) was a German educator and classical philologist . From 1813 to 1818 he studied at the University of Tübingen , then furthered his education at Heidelberg as

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144-452: Was his Geschichte der römischen Litteratur (1870); revisions by Ludwig Schwabe , Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch carried this to a 6th–7th edition (1913–1920). An English translation of the 5th edition by George Charles Winter Warr was published in 1891–1892, as Teuffel's History of Roman Literature . The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition described Teuffel's history as "written in an unattractive style" but "indispensable to

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