Johann Albrecht Friedrich August (August) Meineke
1790–1870
German classical scholar. Spent three semesters at the University of Leipzig as a member of the Greek society of Gottfried Hermann, 1810. Professor of Greek and Roman literature at Jenkau Conradinum, near Danzig, 1811; Academic Gymnasium, Danzig, 1814; director, 1817. Director of the Joachimsthal Gymnasium, Berlin, 1826–56. Elected to the Berlin Academy, 1830. Edited several important classical works.
Sources
ADB
Sandys 1903–8, 3: 117
Bibliography
ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.
Sandys, John Edwin. 1903–8. A history of classical scholarship. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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