Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich

Who was Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich?

Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich was a German classical philologist born in Westerengel, a village near Trebra. He was the father of legal scholar Agathon Wunderlich.

He studied classical philology at the University of Göttingen, where in 1806 he earned his doctorate. In 1808 he was appointed assessor at the university, where shortly afterwards he became an associate professor. One of his better known students at Göttingen was philologist Karl Lachmann. Wunderlich died from acute angina when he was in his early thirties.

Among his better known literary works are the following:

"Albii Tibulli Carmina libri tres cum quarto libro Sulpiciae et aliorum".

"Observationes critica in Aeschyli tragoedias tragoediarumque reliquias".

"Demosthenis Oratio per corona, Aeschinis in Ctesiphontem".

"P. Vergilii Maronis opera in tironum" — completion of the Christian Gottlob Heyne edition, posthumously released by Friedrich Ernst Ruhkopf - Hanover/Leipzig 1816.