Ernst Friedrich Poppo
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Ernst Friedrich Poppo | |
|---|---|
| Born | 13 August 1794 |
| Died | 6 November 1866 (aged 72) |
| Occupation | classical scholar |
Ernst Friedrich Poppo (13 August 1794 – 6 November 1866), German classical scholar and schoolmaster, was born at Guben in Brandenburg. He studied at Leipzig.[1]
In 1818 he was appointed director of the gymnasium at Frankfurt an der Oder, where he died on 6 November 1866, having resigned his post three years before.[2]
Poppo was an extremely successful teacher and organizer, and in a few years doubled the number of pupils at the gymnasium. He is chiefly known, however, for his exhaustive and complete edition of Thucydides in four parts (11 vols., 1821-1840), containing:
- A prolegomenon on Thucydides as an historian and on his language and style (English translation by George Burges, 1837), accompanied by historical and geographical essays[3]
- The text with scholia and critical notes
- A commentary on the text and scholia
- Indices and appendices.[2]
For the ordinary student a smaller edition (1843–1851) was prepared; this edition was revised after the author's death by Johann Matthias Stahl (1875–1889).[2]
