August Boeckh

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August Boeckh was a prominent 19th-century German classical philologist and antiquarian known for his influential work on ancient Greek literature, history, and metrics.

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instanceOf German scholar
antiquarian
classical philologist
human
university teacher
countryOfBirth Margraviate of Baden
countryOfCitizenship Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
countryOfDeath Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
dateOfBirth 1785-11-24
dateOfDeath 1867-08-03
educatedAt University of Halle
employer Humboldt University of Berlin
ethnicGroup German
familyName Boeckh
fieldOfWork Greek philology
ancient history
antiquarian studies
classical philology
epigraphy
metrics
givenName August
hasOccupation antiquarian
philologist
university professor
influencedBy Friedrich August Wolf
knownFor founding role in Greek epigraphy as a discipline
research on Athenian public economy
studies of ancient Greek metrics
systematic methodology of philology
languageOfWorkOrName Ancient Greek
German
memberOf Prussian Academy of Sciences
movement 19th-century German philology
name August Boeckh self-link
nativeLanguage German
notableStudent Immanuel Bekker
Johann Gustav Droysen
Moriz Haupt
notableWork Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum
De Metris Pindari
Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener
Encyklopädie und Methodologie der philologischen Wissenschaften
Metrologische Untersuchungen über Gewichte, Münzfüße und Maße des Altertums
Pindari opera
placeOfBirth Karlsruhe
placeOfDeath Berlin
positionHeld professor of classical philology at the University of Berlin
rector of the University of Berlin
sexOrGender male
spouse Amalie Boeckh
workLocation Berlin

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Friedrich August Wolf notableStudent August Boeckh
August Boeckh name August Boeckh self-link