August Ferdinand Naeke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German classical philologist
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Place of Birth: Frauenstein, Saxony, Germany
About August Ferdinand Naeke
- August Ferdinand Naeke (15 May 1788, in Frauenstein – 12 September 1838, in Bonn) was a German classical philologist. He studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig as a pupil of Gottfried Hermann, receiving his doctorate in 1810.
- After graduation, he worked as a teacher at the Pädagogium of the Francke Foundations in Halle an der Saale.
- In 1817 he became an associate professor of classical philology, and during the following year, relocated to the University of Bonn, where in 1820 he obtained a full professorship.
- He is most famous today for having observed that in epic hexameters, it is rare to have a word end a spondaic fourth foot (unless this word is a proclitic that adheres closely to the word beginning the fifth foot).
- This is known as Naeke's Law.
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