Buttmann

A distinguished classical scholar, who was born in Frankfort in 1764. He studied classical philology under Heyne, and in 1789 was made assistant in the Royal Library at Berlin, subsequently becoming the librarian (1811). From 1800 to 1808 he also held a professorship in the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. His bestknown works are his Greek grammar (1792), of which the twenty-second edition appeared in 1869; and his Lexilogus, 2 vols. (1818-25; 2d ed. 1860). It is a valuable study of the difficult words found in Homer and Hesiod. There is an English translation of it by Fishlake. Buttmann also published Ausführliche griechische Sprachlehre, 2 vols. (1819-27); Demosthenes in Midiam (1823); Mythologus, a collection of essays (1828-29); and continued Spalding's great edition of Quintilian. He also edited Spener's Journal from 1796 to 1808. He died June 21st, 1829.