August Reifferscheid
Karl Wilhelm August Reifferscheid was a German archaeologist and classical philologist.Biography
He was born and educated in Bonn. He received a traveling fellowship in archaeology from the University of Bonn, and spent 1861–66 mostly in Italy, part of the time fulfilling a request by the Vienna Academy to do archival research for the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum. He was professor at Breslau, and beginning in 1885, a professor at the University of Strassburg.
Reifferscheid died in Strassburg, Alsace-Lorraine.Works
His works include:
- Suetoni præter Cæsarum Libros Reliquiæ ; the standard edition of these fragments.
- Bibliotheca Patrum Latinorum Italica.
- Arnobii Adversvs nationes libri VII ; main author, Arnobius.
- An edition of Anna Comnena's Alexiad.
- A partial edition of Tertullian, Quinti Septimi Florentis Tertulliani.
