Otto Ribbeck
Academic
1827 – 1898
Who was Otto Ribbeck?
Johann Carl Otto Ribbeck, was a German classical scholar.
He was born at Erfurt in Saxony. Having held professorial appointments at Kiel and Heidelberg, he succeeded his tutor, Friedrich Ritschl, in the chair of classical philology at Leipzig, where he died.
Ribbeck was the author of several standard works on the poets and poetry of Rome, the most important of which are the following: Geschichte der römischen Dichtung; Die römische Tragodie im Zeitalter der Republik; Scaenicae Romanorum Poesis Fragmenta, including the tragic and comic fragments.
As a textual critic he was distinguished by considerable rashness, and never hesitated to alter, rearrange or reject as spurious what failed to reach his standard of excellence. These tendencies are strikingly shown in his editions of the Epistles and Ars Poetica of Horace, the Satires of Juvenal and in the supplementary essay Der echte und unechte Juvenal. In later years, however, he became much more conservative.
His edition of Virgil, although only critical, is a work of great erudition, especially the Prolegomena. His biography of Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl is one of the best works of its kind. The influence of his tutor may be seen in Ribbeck's critical edition of the Miles Gioriosus of Plautus, and Beitrage zur Lehre von den laleinischen Partikeln, a work of much promise, which causes regret that he did not publish further results of his studies in that direction. His miscellaneous Reden und Vorträge were published after his death. He took great interest in the monumental Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, and it was chiefly owing to his efforts that the government of Saxony was induced to assist its production by a considerable subsidy.
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- Born
- Jul 23, 1827
Erfurt - Spouses
- Emma Ribbeck
(1854 - )
- Emma Ribbeck
- Nationality
- Germany
- Lived in
- Erfurt
- Died
- Jul 18, 1898
Leipzig
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on July 23, 2013
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