Augustus Meineke

Who was Augustus Meineke?

Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke, German classical scholar, was born at Soest in Westphalia.

After holding educational posts at Jenkau and Danzig, he was director of the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin from 1826 to 1856. He died at Berlin on 12 December 1870. He was distinguished in conjectural criticism, the comic writers and Alexandrine poets being his favourite authors.

His most important works are:

⁕Fragmenta comicorum graecorum

⁕Aristophanes

⁕Analecta alexandrina

⁕Callimachus

⁕Theocritus, Bion, Moschus

⁕Alciphron

⁕Strabo and Vindiciae strabonianae

⁕Stobaeus

⁕Sophoclis Oedipus Coloneus cum scholiis graecis. Accedunt Analecta Sophoclea

⁕Athenaeus.

See monographs by F. Ranke, H. Sauppe and E. Förstemann in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, XXI. also Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol., iii. 117.