PRELLER, LUDWIG (18091861)
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PRELLER, LUDWIG (18091861) , German philologist and antiquarian, was born at Hamburg on the 15th of September 18og. After having studied at Leipzig , Berlin and Gottingen , in 1838 he was appointed to the professorship of philology at Dorpat, which, however, he resigned in 1843. He afterwards spent some time in Italy , but settled in Jena in 1844, where he became professor in 1846. In the same year he removed as head librarian to Weimar , where he died on the 21st of June 1861. His chief works are: Demeter u. Persephone (1837); Griechische Mythologie (18541855; 4th ed., by C. Robert, 1887 seq.); and Romische Mythologie (1858; 3rd ed. by H. Jordan, 18811883). He also co-operated with H. Ritter in the preparation of the most useful Historia philosophcae graecae et romanae ex fontium locis contexta (1838; ed. E. Wellmann, 1898). He contributed extensively to Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopadie and Pauly's Realencyklopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. A complete list of his works will be found in Ausgewahlte Aufsatze aus dem Gebiete der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft (ed. R. Kohler, 1864). See G. T. Stichling, Ludwig Preller . Eine Gedachtnissrede (Weimar , 1863) ; C. Bursian, Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883).
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