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Franz Eyssenhardt

German classical philologist (1838–1901) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Franz Eyssenhardt (6 March 1838 30 November 1901) was a German classical philologist born in Berlin.

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He studied philology in Berlin, and subsequently became an instructor at the Werderscher gymnasium. In 1868-69 he performed research in Italy, and in 1876 was appointed professor at the Johanneum in Hamburg. From 1882 to 1900 he was director of the Hamburg city library.

Eyssenhardt was author of editions of Martianus Capella, Phaedrus, Macrobius, Apuleius and Ammianus Marcellinus. Another noted work of his was an 1886 biography of historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776-1831).

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Selected publications

He was the author of a dozen articles in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.[2]

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