biography
| name: |
Wolf, Friedrich August
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pronunciation:
[volf]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1759–1824)
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| biography:
| Classical philologist and archaeologist, born in Haynrode, C Germany. Professor at Halle, he was instrumental in the foundation of Berlin University (1807) and became professor there (1810). In his Prologomena ad Homerum (1795) he initiated a critical-philological approach to the study of Homer's works. |
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