Johann August Nauck

August Nauck ( born September 18, 1822 in Auerstädt in Thuringia; † August 3, 1892 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German philologist.

August Nauck studied from 1841 to 1847 in Halle and in 1853 lecturer at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. In 1858 he became senior teacher at the school for Berlinischen horror monastery and settled in 1859 as an associate member of the Academy of Sciences to Saint Petersburg, where he became a full member in 1861. In 1869 he became a full professor of Greek literature at the historical- philological institute. In 1889, he was appointed foreign member of the Philosophical- philological class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. August Nauck has rendered outstanding services to the criticism and explanation of the Greek tragedians, and Homer.

Writings (selection )

• Euripidis tragoediae (Leipzig 1854, Vol 1 and 2, 3rd ed I871; vol 3 [ fragments ] 1869)
• Euripides studies (Petersburg 1859-62, 2 Tle )
• Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (Leipzig 1856)
• Sophoclis tragoediae (Berlin 1867)
• Odyssee (Berlin 1874, 2 vols )
• Iliad (ibid. 1877-79, 2 vols )
• Aristophanis Byzantii grammatici Alexandrini fragmenta (Hall 1848)
• Porphyrii philosophical Platonici opuscula (Leipzig 1860)
• Lexicon Vindobonense (Petersburg 1867)
• Jamblichi de vita Pythagorica liber (ibid. 1884)