Johann August Nauck
Johann August Nauck was a German classical scholar and critic. His chief work was the Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta.Biography
Nauck was born at Auerstedt in present-day Thuringia. He studied at the University of Halle as a student of Gottfried Bernhardy and Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier. In 1853 he became an adjunct under August Meineke at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. After a brief stint as an educator at the Grauen Kloster, he relocated to St. Petersburg, where in 1869, he was appointed professor of Greek at the historical-philological institute.
Nauck was one of the most distinguished textual critics of his day, although, like PH Peerlkamp, he was fond of altering a text in accordance with what he thought the author must, or ought to, have written. Nauck was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1885.Published works
The most important of his writings and translations, all of which deal with Greek language and literature are as follows:
- Fragments of Aristophanes of Byzantium.
- Euripidis Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum fragmenta; ex recensione Augusti Nauckii,.
- Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, His chief work — it was intended as a counterpart to Meineke's "comedy fragments",.
- Revised edition of Schneidewin's annotated Sophocles
- Porphyrius of Tyre ; "Porphyrii philosophi Platonici opuscula selecta".
- Lexikon Vindobonense.
- texts of Homer, Odyssey and Iliad ; published as "Homerica carmina".
- Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica.
