Nauck

A classical scholar born at Auerstadt, in Germany, in 1822. He was educated at the University of Halle, and taught for some years at several gymnasia in Berlin. In 1856 he received a position as Member Extraordinary of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, and made that city his home until his death, which occurred in 1892. As a text-critic and editor, Nauck must be ranked among the greatest of the century, and his writings in this field are very numerous. As a controversialist he was often too harsh in his language. The following are his bestknown works: An edition of the fragments of Aristophanes of Byzantium (1848); the complete works of Euripides, with the fragments (1854; last ed. 1877); an annotated edition of Sophocles based upon Schneidewin (1867); the Odyssey and Iliad of Homer (1874-77); Iamblichus on Pythagoras (1884); select works of Porphyrius (1886); and greatest of all his Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1856), with a lexicon or rather index (1892). This is now the standard edition. Nauck's writings are enumerated and his life told by Zielinski in his monograph, August Nauck (Berlin, 1894).