Georg Ludolf Dissen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German philologist
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Place of Birth: Friedland, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Georg Ludolf Dissen
- Georg Ludolf Dissen (17 December 1784 – 21 September 1837) was a German classical philologist who was a native of Groß Schneen, a village in the District of Göttingen. He studied classical philology at the University of Göttingen, where one of his instructors was Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812).
- After graduation, he was a lecturer at Göttingen, and in 1812 relocated to the University of Marburg as an associate professor.
- The following year he returned to Göttingen, where he was a colleague to Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784-1868), Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich (1783-1816) and Karl Otfried Müller (1797-1840).
- In 1817 he was appointed "full professor", and in 1833 became a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. Dissen was considered an excellent teacher, and was an important influence to the development of philologist Karl Lachmann (1793-1851).
- Among his written works were editions of Pindar (1830), Tibullus (1835) and the orations of Demosthenes (1837).
- In addition, he collaborated with Philipp August Böckh (1785-1867) on the latter's masterful edition of Pindar.
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