Georg Curtius

Georg Curtius ( * April 16, 1820 in Lübeck, † August 12 1885 in Sobieszów ) was a German philologist. He was the brother of the historian and archaeologist Ernst Curtius.

Life and work

After his studies in Bonn and Berlin, he spent three years as schoolmaster in Dresden, 1845, he came back as a lecturer at the University of Berlin. In 1849 he became head of the philological seminar in Prague and two years later professor of classical philology at the University of Prague.

In 1854 he moved from Prague to a similar job in Kiel, 1862, he went from Kiel to Leipzig.

His philological theories had far-reaching influence. His most important writings are

  • The comparison of languages ​​in their Verhaltniss on classical philology (1845 )
  • Language, comparative contributions to Greek and Latin grammar (1846 )
  • Principles of Greek etymology (1858-1862, 5th edition 1879)
  • The verb of the Greek language (1873 ).

Since 1878, Curtius was editor of the Leipziger studies on classical philology. His Greek grammar school, first published in 1852, experienced more than twenty editions and was also published in English. In his last work, A Critique of the latest language research (1885), he criticizes the views of the School of Neogrammarians.

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