Bergk

A distinguished classicist, who was born at Leipzig in 1812. Between the years 1842 and 1869 he held the chair of classical philology in three universities—Marburg, Freiburg, and Halle, retiring in 1869 from ill-health. His greatest completed work is his Poetae Lyrici Graeci, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1843), of which the fourth edition appeared in 1878. After his retirement, he began his Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur, of which he finished only the first volume (Berlin, 1872), the second and third being edited by G. Hinrichs (Berlin, 1883-84). He died July 20th, 1881.