Hermann Bonitz German

Germany

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 scholar, was born at Langensalza in Prussian Saxony.

Having studied at Leipzig

Leipzig

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 under G Hermann

Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann

Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann was a German classical scholar and philologist.-Biography:He was born at Leipzig. Entering its university at the age of fourteen, Hermann at first studied law, which he soon abandoned for the classics...

 and at Berlin

Berlin

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 under Böckh

Philipp August Böckh

August Böckh was a German classical scholar and antiquarian.-Biography:He was born in Karlsruhe, and educated at the local gymnasium; in 1803 he left for the University of Halle, where he studied theology. F.A...

 and Lachmann, he became successively teacher at the Blochmann-Institut in Dresden

Dresden

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 (1836), Oberlehrer at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (1838) and the Graues Kloster (1840) in Berlin, professor at the gymnasium at Stettin (Szczecin)

Szczecin

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 (1842), professor at the University of Vienna

University of Vienna

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 (1849), member of the imperial academy

Imperial Academy

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 (1854), member of the council of education (1864), and director of the Graues-Kloster-Gymnasium (1867). He retired in 1888, and died in that year at Berlin.

He took great interest in higher education

Higher education

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, and was chiefly responsible for the system of teaching and examination in use in the high schools of Prussia

Prussia

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 after 1882. But it is as a commentator on Plato

Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...

 and Aristotle

Aristotle

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 that he is best known outside Germany. His most important works in this connection are:

• Disputationes Platonicae Duae (1837); Platonische Studien (3rd ed., 1886)
• Observationes Criticae in Aristotelis Libros Metaphysicos (1842)
• Observationes Criticae in Aristotelis quae feruntur Magna Moralia et Ethica Eudemia (1844)
• Alexandri Aphrodisiensis Commentarius in Libros Metaphysicos Aristotelis (1847)
• Aristotelis Metaphysica (1848-1849)
• Über die Kategorien des A. (1853)
• Aristotelische Studien (1862-1867)
• Index Aristotelicus (1870)

Other works:

• Über den Ursprung der homerischen Gedichte (5th ed., 188,)
• Beiträge zur Erklärung des Thukydides (1854), des Sophokles (1856-1857)

He also wrote largely on classical and educational subjects, mainly for the Zeitschrift für die österreichischen Gymnasien.

A full list of his writings is given in the obituary notice by Theodor Gomperz

Theodor Gomperz

Theodor Gomperz , Austrian philosopher and classical scholar, was born at Brno .He studied at Brno and at Vienna under Hermann Bonitz. Graduating at Vienna in 1867 he became Privatdozent, and subsequently professor of classical philology . In 1882 he was elected a member of the Academy of Science...

in the Biographisches Jahrbuch fr Altertumskunde (1890).