Johann Georg Baiter

Johann Georg Baiter ( born May 31, 1801 in Zurich, † October 10, 1877 ibid ) was a Swiss philologist and critic.

He grew up in his native town, went in 1818 to the University of Tübingen to stay but could not afford it there, so he had to return to Zurich, where he lived as a private tutor for several years. 1824 to 1829 he studied at the University of Munich with Friedrich Thiersch, at the University of Göttingen with Georg Dissen and the University of Königsberg in Christian Lobeck. From 1833 to 1876 he was a senior teacher at the high school in Zurich.

Baiters attention was paid to textual criticism, especially with regard to Cicero and the Attic orators. He was able to use the best manuscripts, his compilations reported highest accuracy. Most of his works he produced in collaboration with other scholars, including Johann Caspar von Orelli, who considered him as his right hand. He gave out Isocrates, panegyric (1831 ), with Hermann Sauppe together Lycurgus, Leocralca (1834 ) and oratores Atticae ( 1838-1850 ), with Orelli and Winckelmann a critical edition of the works of Plato ( 1839-1842 ), with Orelli Babrius, Fabellae Iambicae nuper repertae (1845 ), as well as Isocrates in Didot classic collection ( 1846).

He was associated with Orelli in his great work on Cicero and assisted in Ciceronis Scholiastae ( 1833) and Onomasticon Tullianum ( 1836-1838 ). The Fasti consulares and Triumph were alone his work. With Orelli and ( after his death ) Karl Felix Halm he worked on the second edition of Cicero, and gave Kayser with the same author for the Tauchnitz series ( 1860-1869 ) out. He is also the new edition of Orellis Tacitus and Horace owe. With Sauppe together he translated Leakes Topography of Athens.