Wilhelm Freund

Wilhelm Freund ( born January 27, 1806 Kempen, Posen Province, † June 4, 1894 in Breslau) was a German classical scholar.

Life

Wilhelm friend, the son of Jewish parents, studied from 1824 in Berlin and Breslau, opened in 1828 in Breslau, a Jewish religious school, which he did, with hostility by his Orthodox coreligionists, closed soon. He then lived mostly privatizing, but was now a teacher at Elisabethanum in Wroclaw, and managed from 1848 to 1851 provisionally the Directorate of School in Hirschberg, made in 1851 a larger trip to England in 1853 to the Grisons and Tyrol to get to know the local Romanesque, was of 1855-1870 Director of organized according to his plan higher Israelite community school in Gliwice and lived since then in literary activity in Breslau.

Writings

His main work is:

• Dictionary of Latin (Leipzig 1834-1845, 4 ​​vols )

Following this, he wrote:

• Total dictionary of the Latin language (Breslau from 1844 to 1845, 2 vols )
• Latin - German and German - Latin- Greek College Dictionary (Berlin 1848-1855, 2 Tle )

Later, he wrote numerous textbooks, such as:

• Preparations to Greek and Roman classics school, even to the Old Testament (the latter with Marx, Leipzig 1862 et seq )
• Prima, a collection of teaching letters in preparation for the final examination
• Walks on classical soil ( Wohlfarth, Breslau from 1889 to 1891, five books; digitized )

He has also written:

• Cicero: pro Milone (Breslau 1828)
• How to study philology? (5th edition, Leipzig 1885)
• Triennium philologicum or Broad philological sciences (Leipzig 1874-1876, 6 vols, 3rd edition 1885 et seq )
• Tables of the Greek, Roman, German, English, French and Italian literary history (Leipzig 1873-1875, 6 plates )
• Cicero historicus. Cicero history information (Leipzig 188l )