{{short description|German philologist and historian}} {{Infobox person | name = Gottfried Bernhardy | image = Gottfried Bernhardy - Imagines philologorum.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1800|03|14|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Gorzów Wielkopolski|Landsberg (Warthe)]], [[Prussia]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1875|05|14|1800|03|14|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Halle an der Saale]], Prussia | other_names = | occupation = Philologist | known_for = }} '''Gottfried Bernhardy''' (20 March 1800 &ndash; 14 May 1875), German [[philology|philologist]] and literary historian, was born at [[Gorzów Wielkopolski|Landsberg an der Warthe]] (now [[Poland]]) in the [[Neumark]].

==Life== He was the son of Jewish parents in reduced circumstances. Two well-to-do uncles provided the means for his education, and in 1811 he entered the Joachimsthal gymnasium at Berlin. In 1817 he went to [[Humboldt University of Berlin|Berlin University]] to study [[philology]], where he had the advantage of hearing [[Friedrich August Wolf|F. A. Wolf]] (then advanced in years), [[August Böckh]] and [[Philipp Karl Buttmann]]. In 1822, he took the degree of doctor of philosophy at Berlin, and in 1825 became an associate professor. In 1829, he succeeded [[Christian Karl Reisig|Christian Carl Reisig]] as professor and director of the philological seminary at [[university of Halle|Halle]], and in 1844 was appointed chief librarian of the university.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<ref name=PN>[http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Bernhardy,_Gottfried ADB: Bernhardy, Gottfried] at [[Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie]]</ref><ref>[http://www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de/bernhardygottfried.html Catalogus-professorum-halensis] biography</ref>

== Works == The most important of Bernhardy's works were his histories (or sketches) of Greek and Roman literature:{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} * ''Grundriss der römischen Litteratur'' (5th ed., 1872) * ''Grundriss der griechischen Litteratur'':<ref>[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011627470 HathiTrust Digital Library] Grundriss der griechischen Litteratur.</ref> **Pt. i, Introduction and general view, 1836. **Pt. ii, Greek poetry, 1845. **pt. iii, Greek prose literature, was never published. A fifth edition of pts. i. and ii., by R. Volkmann, began in 1892.<ref>[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008234539 HathiTrust Digital Library] Grundriss der griechischen Litteratur (2 volumes)</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MtAyAQAAIAAJ Google Books] Grundriss der griechischen Litteratur: Th. Innere Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur. (Einleitung und Allgemeine Ubersicht.) 5. Bearbeitung von R. Volkmann, 1892</ref> Other works by Bernhardy are: * ''Eratosthenica'' (1822); a book involving [[Eratosthenes]]. * ''Dionysius Periegetes Graece et Latine'' (1828); a book involving [[Dionysius Periegetes]]. * ''Wissenschaftliche Syntax der griechischen Sprache'' (1829, suppts. 1854, 1862) – Scientific syntax of the Greek language. * ''Grundlinien zur Encyclopädie der Philologie'' (1832) – Basic orientation for an encyclopedia of philology. * a monumental edition of the "''Lexicon''" of [[Suda|Suidas]]; project completed in 1853.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bBBLnkP5SJkC&dq=%22+Gottfried+Bernhardy%22+Suidas+1834&pg=PA122 A History of Classical Scholarship ...: The eighteenth century in Germany] by Sir [[John Edwin Sandys]]</ref> * an edition of F. A. Wolf's "''[[Kleine Schriften]]''", two volumes (1869).<ref name=PN/>

==References== {{reflist}} '''Attribution:''' *{{EB1911|wstitle=Bernhardy, Gottfried |volume=3 |page=802}} This cites Volkmann, ''G. Bernhardy'' (1887).

==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Gottfried Bernhardy}}

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