Eduard Munk was a German

Germany

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 philologist

Philology

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

. He was a cousin of Salomon Munk

Salomon Munk

Salomon Munk was a German-born Jewish-French Orientalist.Munk was born in Gross Glogau in the Kingdom of Prussia. He received his first instruction in Hebrew from his father, an official of the Jewish community; and on the latter's death he joined the Talmud class of R. Jacob Joseph Oettinger...

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Munk was born in Gross Glogau. He studied from 1822 to 1825 at Breslau and Berlin

Berlin

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, and was a favorite disciple of August Böckh

Philipp August Böckh

August Böckh was a German classical scholar and antiquarian.-Biography:He was born in Karlsruhe, and educated at the local gymnasium; in 1803 he left for the University of Halle, where he studied theology. F.A...

. Munk was active as teacher, officiating from 1827 to 1848 at the Royal Wilhelmsschule at Breslau, and from 1850 to 1857 intermittently at the gymnasium of Glogau, and afterward as a private tutor. In 1862 he received the title of professor.

Munk was a profound student of classical literature. Though, without any prospects of a university professorship, on account of his Jewish

Judaism

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religion, he nevertheless devoted all his life exclusively to study, the result of which he gave to the world in numerous works. The best-known of these are:

• "Die Metrik der Griechen und Römer" (Glogau, 1834)
• "De Fabulis Atellanis" (Leipzig, 1840)
• "Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur" (Berlin, 1849–50; 3d ed. by Volkmann, 1879–80)
• "Die Natürliche Ordnung der Platonischen Schriften" (Berlin, 1857)
• "Geschichte der Römischen Literatur" (ib. 1858-61; 2d ed. by Seyffert, 2 vols., 1875–77).

Some of Munk's works have been translated into English, Spanish, and Russian.

Munk was an earnest student of Judaism and a faithful Jew.