Reinhold Klotz

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Reinhold Klotz (13 March 1807 – 10 August 1870) was a German classical scholar.

Biography

Klotz was born in

Gottfried Hermann, and held this post until his death in Kleinschocher (Leipzig) on 10 August 1870. Klotz was a man of unwearied industry, and devoted special attention to Latin literature. During the Revolutions of 1848 and the following years, he showed himself a strong conservative.[1]

Works

He was the author of editions of several classical authors, of which the most important were: the complete works of Cicero (2nd ed. 1869–1874); Clement of Alexandria (1831–1834); Euripides (1841–1867), in continuation of August Julius Edmund Pflugk's edition, but unfinished; Terence (1838–1840), with the commentaries of Aelius Donatus and Eugraphius [de]. Mention should also be made of Handwörterbuch der lateinischen Sprache (5th ed., 1874); Römische Litteraturgeschichte (1847), of which only the introductory volume appeared; an edition of the treatise Liber de Graecae linguae particulis (1835–1842) of Matthaeus Deverius (or Devares), a learned Corfiote (c. 1500–1570), and corrector of the Greek manuscripts in the Vatican; the posthumous Index Ciceronianus (1872) and Handbuch der lateinischen Stilistik (1874). From 1831 to 1855 Klotz was editor of the Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie (Leipzig).[1] With Friedrich Lübker and Ernst Eduard Hudemann, he worked on a Latin dictionary (1847–1857).

A memoir by his son Richard will be found in the Jahrbücher for 1871, pp. 154–163.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Klotz, Reinhold". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 849.

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