Johann Gottfried Schweighauser (1776–1844), son of the classicist Johann Schweighauser

Johann Schweighäuser

Johann Schweighäuser , was a German classical scholar.-Biography:He was born at Strasbourg. From an early age his favourite subjects were philosophy and Oriental languages; Greek and Latin he took up later, and although he owes his reputation to his...

 was also a distinguished scholar and archaeologist, joint-author with M. Golbéry of Antiquités de l'Alsace (1828).

Schweighauser's first important work was his edition of Appian (1785), with Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

 translation and commentary, and an account of the manuscripts. On Brunck

Richard François Philippe Brunck

Richard François Philippe Brunck was a French classical scholar.-Biography:Brunck was born in Strasbourg, France, educated at the Jesuits' College in Paris, and took part in the Seven Years' War as military commissary. At the age of thirty he returned to Strasbourg to resume his studies,...

's recommendation, he had collated an Augsburg manuscript of Appian for Samuel Musgrave

Samuel Musgrave

Samuel Musgrave, FRS was an English classical scholar and physician.Musgrave was born at Washfield in Devon, and was educated at the University of Oxford. There he was elected to a Radcliffe travelling fellowship, and he spent several years abroad...

, who was preparing an edition of that author, and after Musgrave's death he felt it a duty to complete it. His Polybius

Polybius

Polybius , Greek ) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his work, The Histories, which covered the period of 220–146 BC in detail. The work describes in part the rise of the Roman Republic and its gradual domination over Greece...

, with translation, notes and special lexicon

Lexicon

In linguistics, the lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions. A lexicon is also a synonym of the word thesaurus. More formally, it is a language's inventory of lexemes. Coined in English 1603, the word "lexicon" derives from the Greek "λεξικόν" , neut...

, appeared in 1789-1795.

According to Paul Louis Courier

Paul Louis Courier

Paul Louis Courier , French Hellenist and political writer, was born in Paris.Brought up on his father's estate of Méré in Touraine, he conceived a bitter aversion for the nobility, which seemed to strengthen with time. He would never take the name "de Méré", to which he was entitled, lest he...

, his father sent him to England to collate a manuscript for his edition of Athenaeus

Athenaeus

Athenaeus , of Naucratis in Egypt, Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourished about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD...

.

See monographs by J. G. Dahler, C. L. Cuvier, F. J. Stiévenart (all 1830), L. Spach (1868), Ch. Rabany (1884), the two last containing an account of both father and son.