Karl Julius Sillig was a German

Germany

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 classics

Classics

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 scholar, and pupil of Karl August Böttiger

Karl Böttiger

Karl August Böttiger was a German archaeologist and classicist, and a prominent member of the literary and artistic circles in Weimar and Jena....

. Sillig went on to edit many of Böttiger's works after the latter's death in 1835. He also revised and edited the work of other scholars, such as 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...

. Heyne published an edition of the poem "Culex" from the Appendix Vergiliana

Appendix Vergiliana

The Appendix Vergiliana is a collection of poems traditionally ascribed as juvenilia of Virgil, although it is likely that all the pieces are in fact spurious...

, a collection of verse often attributed at least in part to Virgil

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...

, and attempted to cull the lines he thought not genuinely produced by Virgil; an approach of which Sillig was highly critical when he revised Heyne's works.

Born in Dresden

Dresden

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, he studied at Leipzig

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 and 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:...

, and was a schoolmaster

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 at Dresden for the last thirty years of his life. His Catalogus Artificium (1827) was considered a useful work in its time. His edition of Catullus

Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Latin poet of the Republican period. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art.-Biography:...

 less so, although his edition of Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian...

 seems to have been well regarded. He was often referenced in works of 19th century classical scholarship, such as the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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of William Smith

William Smith (lexicographer)

Sir William Smith Kt. was a noted English lexicographer.-Early life:Born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents, he was originally destined for a theological career, but instead was articled to a solicitor. In his spare time he taught himself classics, and when he entered University College...

. However, early 20th century critics felt that as an editor he was too much given to the accumulation of details, and was deficient in judgment and critical method.

Works

• Catalogus Artificium (1827)
• P. Virgilii Maronis opera varietate lectionis et perpetua adnotatione illustratus. Vol. 4. Leipzig: Sumtibus Librariae Hahnianae (1832, revision of works of 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...
  
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• Kleine Schriften
  Kleine Schriften
  is a German phrase often used as a title for a collection of articles and essays written by a single scholar over the course of a career. "Collected Papers" is an English equivalent. These shorter works were usually published previously in various periodicals or in collections of papers written...
  
  (1837, editor)
• Opuscula (1837, editor)