Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich
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Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich (1783 – March 14, 1816) was a German classical philologist who was born in Westerengel, a village near Trebra
Trebra
Trebra is a municipality in the district Kyffhäuserkreis, in Thuringia, Germany....

. He was the father of legal scholar Agathon Wunderlich
Agathon Wunderlich
Gottlob Friedrich Walter Agathon Wunderlich was a German jurist of the 19th century....

 (1810-1878).

He studied classical philology at the University of Göttingen, where in 1806 he earned his doctorate. In 1808 he was appointed assessor at the University, where shortly afterwards he became an associate professor. One of his better known students at Göttingen
Göttingen
Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...

 was philologist Karl Lachmann
Karl Lachmann
Karl Konrad Friedrich Wilhelm Lachmann was a German philologist and critic.-Biography:He was born in Brunswick, in what is now Lower Saxony....

 (1793-1851). Wunderlich died from acute angina
Angina
Angina pectoris, commonly known as angina, is chest pain due to ischemia of the heart muscle, generally due to obstruction or spasm of the coronary arteries . Coronary artery disease, the main cause of angina, is due to atherosclerosis of the cardiac arteries...

 when he was in his early thirties. Among his better known publications are the following:
  • Albii Tibulli
    Tibullus
    Albius Tibullus was a Latin poet and writer of elegies.Little is known about his life. His first and second books of poetry are extant; many other texts attributed to Tibullus are of questionable origins. There are only a few references to him in later writers and a short Life of doubtful authority...

     Carmina libri tres cum quarto libro Sulpiciae et aliorum
    (1806; revised posthumously in 1817 by Georg Ludolf Dissen
    Georg Ludolf Dissen
    Georg Ludolf Dissen was a German classical philologist who was a native of Groß Schneen, a village in the District of Göttingen....

    ).
  • Observationes critica in Aeschyli
    Aeschylus
    Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived, the others being Sophocles and Euripides, and is often described as the father of tragedy. His name derives from the Greek word aiskhos , meaning "shame"...

     tragoedias tragoediarumque reliquias
    (1809)
  • Demosthenis
    Demosthenes
    Demosthenes was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by...

     Oratio per corona, Aeschinis
    Aeschines
    Aeschines was a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators.-Life:Although it is known he was born in Athens, the records regarding his parentage and early life are conflicting; but it seems probable that his parents, though poor, were respectable. Aeschines' father was Atrometus, an...

     in Ctesiphontem
    (1810, second edition 1820)
  • P. Vergilii Maronis
    Virgil
    Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English , was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues , the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid...

     opera in tironum
    ; completion of the Christian Gottlob Heyne
    Christian Gottlob Heyne
    Christian Gottlob Heyne was a German classical scholar and archaeologist as well as long-time director of the Göttingen State and University Library.-Biography:He was born in Chemnitz, Electorate of Saxony...

     (1729-1812) edition, posthumously released by Friedrich Ernst Ruhkopf
    Friedrich Ernst Ruhkopf
    Friedrich Ernst Ruhkopf; , was a German philologist and educator born near Hildesheim.Ruhkopf was a schoolteacher in Ruppin, and in 1794 was appointed rector at Bielefeld. From 1815 to 1821 he was director of the Lyceum in Hanover...

    (1760-1821)- Hanover/Leipzig 1816.
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