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.
4-481: Teuffel's most important work 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
8-565: The Universities of Giessen and Göttingen , receiving his doctorate in 1857 at Giessen. In 1863 he became an associate professor at Giessen, and soon afterwards relocated to the University of Dorpat as a professor of classical philology. In 1872 he was appointed professor of classical philology and chair of classical archaeology at the University of Tübingen , where in 1881–82 he was university rector . Among his better written works
12-443: 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
16-575: Was also the author of and of editions of His Studien und Charakteristiken (1871; 2nd ed., 1889) contain valuable contributions to the history of Greek and Roman literature. This article about a German historian is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ludwig Schwabe Ludwig Schwabe (June 24, 1835 – February 20, 1908) was a German classical philologist and professor of classical archaeology born in Giessen . He studied classical philology and archaeology at
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