A Greek Grammar for the Use of High Schools and Universities (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Philip Buttmann

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ISBN 10 : 0243087225 ISBN 13 : 9780243087228

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The following biographical hints respecting the author of this work, will not perhaps be unacceptable to those who may make use of it; while they may help to form a juster estimate of the nature and relative character of the present Grammar, as compared with the other writings of the same author, and with the works of contemporary Grammarians. The life of a scholar, and especially of a German scholar, is usually barren of incidents ;and it is chiefly the character and progress of his intellectual development, as exhibited in the various productions of,his pen, that furnish the subjects and mark the epochs of his biography. Philip Charles Buttmann was born at Frankfort on the Maine, Oct. 5, 1764. After the usual preparation, he pursued his studies at the University of Gottingen; not without distinction, it would seem, for we soon afterwards find him as an instructor and governor in the family of the Prince of Anhalt Dessau. But he appears early to have preferred a life of private study ;avoiding in this way the responsibilities and absorbing duties of a public teacher, and devoting himself without the abstractions of public obligation, to philological pursuits and investigations. With this view he fixed his residence at Berlin, where he lived for many years as a private citizen; and where, in the free use of the treasures of the royal library, and in social intercourse and interchange of views with Heindorf and Spalding, at that time distinguished professors in the Gymnasia of Berlin, he arrived at those results and adopted those principles, which he has spread before the world in his various grammatical and philological treatises. The first edition of his Grammar appeared at Berlin in 1792. In 1800 he was appointed a Secretary of the Royal Library, and became at a later period one of the principal Librarians. At the same time he accepted the appointment of P
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0243087225
• ISBN 13: 9780243087228
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 533
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