August Immanuel Bekker

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August Immanuel Bekker
University of Halle

August Immanuel Bekker (21 May 1785 – 7 June 1871) was a German

philologist and critic
.

Biography

Born in

University of Berlin. For several years, between 1810 and 1821, he travelled in France, Italy, England and parts of Germany, examining classical manuscripts and gathering materials for his great editorial labours. [1]

Some of the fruits of his researches were published in the

Tacitus (1831).[1]

Bekker confined himself entirely to manuscript investigations and textual criticism; he contributed little to the extension of other types of scholarship.[1] Bekker numbers have become the standard way of referring to the works of Aristotle and the Corpus Aristotelicum. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1861.[4] He died in Berlin aged 86.

Works

  • Ducas, Michael, Ducae : Michaelis Ducae Nepotis Historia Byzantina, ed. by Bekker, August Immanuel (Bonn: Weber, 1834).
  • Khoniátis, Nikítas, Narrattive of Events after the Capture of the City [by the Franks], ed. by Bekker, August Immanuel (Bonn: Weber, 1835).
  • Phrantzis, G., Chronicon, ed. by Bekker, August Immanuel (Bonn: Weber, 1838).
  • Khalkokondhýlis, ‘Laónikos' (i.e. Nikólaos), De Origine et Rebus Gestis Turcarum, ed. by Bekker, August Immanuel (Bonn: Weber, 1843).
  • Attaleiátis, Michael, Historia, ed. by Bekker, August Immanuel (Bonn: Weber, 1853).

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Chisholm 1911, p. 661.
  2. ^ Vol. 1. Lexica Segueriana 1814 (e.g. Δικῶν ὀνόματα, pp. 181–194; Λέξεις ῥητορικαί, pp. 195–318 etc) – v. 2. Apollonii Alexandrini de coniunctionibus (p. 477) et de adverbiis (p. 527) libri. Dionysii Thracis Grammatica (p. 627). Choerobosci, Diomedis, Melampodis, Porphyrii, Stephani in eam scholia (pp. 645–927). Berolini: apud G. Reimerum 1816 – v. 3. Theodosii canones (p. 975). Editoris annotatio critica (p. 1065). Indices (pp. 1299–1466). Berolini: Typis et impensis G. Reimeri 1821.
  3. ISBN 978-0-415-44010-3
    .
  4. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 30 May 2011.

References

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bekker, August Immanuel". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 661. Endnotes:
    • H. Sauppe, Zur Erinnerung an Meineke und Bekker (1872);
    • M. Haupt, “Gedächtnisrede auf Meineke und Bekker”, in his Opuscula, iii.;
    • Ernst Immanuel Bekker, “Zur Erinnerung an meinen Vater”, in the Preußische Jahrbücher, vol. 29 (Berlin 1872).

Further reading

  • Apollonii Dyscoli de Pronomine liber, ed. I. Bekker, Berolini 1813.
  • Apollonii Alexandrini de Constructione Orationis libri quatuor ex rec. I. Bekkeri, Berolini 1817.
  • Aristotelis Opera edidit Academia Regia Borussica, Berlin, 1831–1870. (5 volumes).

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