Karl Wilhelm Krüger

Karl Wilhelm Krüger (28 September 1796 – 1 May 1874) was a German Hellenist.

Biography

He was born at Gross-Nossin in Pomerania, and educated at Halle (1816–20). From 1820 to 1838 he taught at Zerbst, Bernburg, and Berlin, were he worked at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium under the directorship of August Meineke. Afterwards he worked as a private scholar in Nauen, Neuruppin, Heidelberg and Weinheim, where he died in 1874 of a stroke.^[1][2]

Works

• Griechische Sprachlehre für Schulen (“Greek language instruction for schools”, 1842-56; 6th ed. 1892)
• Historisch-philologische Studien (“Historical-philological studies", 1836-51)
• Kritische Analekten (“Selected criticism”, 1863-74)

He also published editions of Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus, and Arrian. His writings on Greek syntax were later edited, translated into English and published with the titles "Attic Greek prose syntax" (1997-98) and "Greek syntax : early Greek poetic and Herodotean syntax" (2002-03).^[3]

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Krüger, Karl Wilhelm". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. This work in turn cites:
  • Pökel, Krügers Lebensabriss (“A sketch of Krüger's life,” Leipzig, 1885)

1. Krüger, Karl Wilhelm at Deutsche Biographie
2. A History of Classical Scholarship: The eighteenth century in Germany by John Edwin Sandys
3. Most widely held works by K. W Krüger WorldCat Identities

External links

• Karl Felix Halm (1883), "Krüger, Karl Wilhelm", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 17, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 232–234