Wilhelm Pape
Johann Georg Wilhelm Pape (3 January 1807 – 23 February 1854) was a German classical philologist and lexicographer. He is known today primarily as the author of his Griechisch-Deutsches Handwörterbuch [Concise Greek-German Dictionary], first published in 1842 and frequently reprinted in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Life
Pape was born in Berlin and educated in
Scholarship
Concurrently with his duties at the school, Pape devoted himself to lexicographic studies. He completed an etymological dictionary of Greek in 1836, and in 1842 published the work for which is he known today, his Griechisch-Deutsches Handwörterbuch [Concise Greek-German Dictionary]. For the second edition (1849–1850), he added a dictionary of Greek proper names. A revised and expanded version of this latter work, published in two volumes by Gustav Eduard Benseler as Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (1863–70), became an important 19th-century reference work.[1]
A revised third edition of Pape's Greek-German dictionary was published in 1880 and reprinted several times in the early 20th century.[1] It was regarded as a serious competitor[2] to the Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache of Franz Passow, which became the basis for Liddell and Scott's A Greek–English Lexicon.
References
External links
- Wilhelm Pape at the German National Library