Friedrich Ernst Ruhkopf; (Latin-Fridericus Ernestus Ruhkopf), (1760-1821) was a German philologist and educator born near Hildesheim

Hildesheim

Hildesheim is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located in the district of Hildesheim, about 30 km southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste river, which is a small tributary of the Leine river...

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Ruhkopf was a schoolteacher in Ruppin, and in 1794 was appointed rector

Rector

The word rector has a number of different meanings; it is widely used to refer to an academic, religious or political administrator...

 at Bielefeld

Bielefeld

Bielefeld is an independent city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 323,000, it is also the most populous city in the Regierungsbezirk Detmold...

. From 1815 to 1821 he was director of the Lyceum

Lyceum

The lyceum is a category of educational institution defined within the education system of many countries, mainly in Europe. The definition varies between countries; usually it is a type of secondary school.-History:...

 in Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

. He is remembered for his work in classical philology

Classical philology

Classical philology is the study of ancient Greek and classical Latin. Classical philology has been defined as "the careful study of the literary and philosophical texts of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds." Greek and Latin literature and civilization have traditionally been considered...

, particularly his five-volume edition of Seneca's

Seneca the Younger

Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero...

 "Opera omnia quae supersunt" (1797-1811). Among his better known publications are the following:

• Erklärende Anmerkungen zu Homers Ilias, (Explanatory Notes on Homer
  Homer
  In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...
  
  's Iliad
  Iliad
  The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles...
  
  ), with Johann Heinrich Justus Köppen
  Johann Heinrich Justus Köppen
  Johann Heinrich Justus Köppen was a German philologist and pedagogue born in Hanover.He studied philology at the University of Göttingen, where he was a pupil of Christian Gottlob Heyne . From 1779 he served as an adjunct instructor at the Pädagogium in Ilfeld, afterwards becoming director of the...
  
   (1755-1791)
• Geschichte des Schul- und Erziehungswesens in Deutschland, (History of the School and Education System in Germany), (1794)
• L. Annaei Senecae Philosophi Opera omnia quae supersunt recognovit et illustravit; 5 of 8 volumes (1797-1811)
• Prolegomena on an ad carminum de Homerum passive Homericorum origine, et auctore Aetate, (1818)
• Lateinisch-deutsches und deutsch-lateinisches Schulwörterbuch, (Latin-German and German-Latin Dictionary), with Ernst Friedrich Kärcher
  Ernst Friedrich Kärcher
  Ernst Friedrich Kärcher was a German educator and philologist who was a native of Ichenheim, a village in Baden-Württemberg. He is remembered as author of numerous Latin dictionaries....
  
  (1789-1855); (1822)