Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel (September 27, 1820 – March 8, 1878), German classical scholar

Classics

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, was born at Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg

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 in the kingdom of Württemberg

Kingdom of Württemberg

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. In 1849 he was appointed extraordinary, in 1857 ordinary professor in the university of Tübingen, which post he held till his death.

Works

Teuffel's most important work was his Geschichte der römischen Litteratur (1870); revisions by Ludwig Schwabe

Ludwig Schwabe

Ludwig Schwabe was a German classical philologist and professor of classical archaeology born in Giessen....

, Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch

Franz Skutsch

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 carried this to a 6th–7th edition (1913–1920). An English translation of the 5th edition by George Charles Winter Warr was published in 1891–1892, as Teuffel's History of Roman Literature. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

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 described Teuffel's history as "written in an unattractive style" but "indispensable to the student" especially for its "bibliographical information", and Warr's translation is described in the 1996 Oxford Classical Dictionary

Oxford Classical Dictionary

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as "still useful on details".

After the death of August Pauly

August Pauly

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, the editor of the well-known Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft

Pauly-Wissowa

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, Teuffel, at first assisted by Ernst Christian Walz

Ernst Christian Walz

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, undertook the completion of the work, to which he also contributed numerous articles.

He was also the author of

• "Prolegomena zur Chronologie der horazischen Geschichte" (in Zeitschrift für die Altertumswissenschaft, 1842)
• Charakteristik des Horaz (Leipzig, 1842)
• Horaz, eine litterar-historische Übersicht (Tübingen, 1843),

and of editions of

• The Clouds
  The Clouds
  The Clouds is a comedy written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes lampooning intellectual fashions in classical Athens. It was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC and it was not well received, coming last of the three plays competing at the festival that year. It was revised...
  
  of Aristophanes
  Aristophanes
  Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete...
  
   (1856)
• the Persae of Aeschylus
  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"...
  
  (1866).

His Studien und Charakteristiken (1871; 2nd ed., 1889) contain valuable contributions to the history of Greek and Roman literature.

External links

• History of Roman Literature (English translation) at the Montclair Electronic Text Archive