August Immanuel Bekker

Immanuel Bekker ( born May 21, 1785 Berlin August Emanuel Bekker, † June 7, 1871 ) was a German classical scholar.

Life

Immanuel Bekker studied in Hall at Friedrich August Wolf and is considered the most important pupil. On the recommendation of the Wolf, he was appointed in 1810 to the newly founded University of Berlin and in 1815 a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Bekker was considered a linguist, but taciturn ( Friedrich Schleiermacher, " Bekker silent in seven languages ​​"). On some multi-year trips to Paris, Italy and the UK, he saw a Greek manuscripts in preparation of critical editions.

Bekkers is important primarily in the edition of the first modern Aristotle Complete Edition. By specifying the Bekker page is quoted from this even today. He also published critical editions of many other ancient (almost exclusively Greek ), and medieval, especially Byzantine writer (a total of about 140 volumes) that were in the 19th century as a role model, especially the issues of Plato and Homer.