Johann August Nauck

Who was Johann August Nauck?

Johann August Nauck was a German classical scholar and critic.

Nauck was born at Auerstedt in present-day Thuringia. After studying at the University of Halle and holding educational posts in Berlin, he immigrated in 1859 to St Petersburg, where he became a professor of Greek at the Imperial Historico-Philological Institute.

Nauck was one of the most distinguished textual critics of his day, although, like PH Peerlkamp, he was fond of altering a text in accordance with what he thought the author must, or ought to, have written.

The most important of his writings and translations, all of which deal with Greek language and literature are the following:

Euripides, Tragedies and Fragments

Studio, Euripidea

Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, his chief work

Index to the Fragments

Text of Sophocles: Sophokles. Erstes Baendchen: Allgemeine Einleitung. Aias. Philoktetes; Sophoclis Tragoediae; Sophokles. Erstes Baendchen: Allgemeine Einleitung. Aias..

revised edition of Schneidewin's annotated Sophocles