Welcker, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB

Welcker, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB, a great German scholar, was born 4th November 1784 at Grünberg, in Hesse-Darmstadt, studied at Giessen, spent the years 1806-7 in Rome, filled a chair at Giessen, fought against the French as a volunteer in 1814, spent the following winter in Copenhagen writing the life and editing the remains of Zoega, was next called to a chair at Göttingen, and finally (1819) in the newly-erected Prussian university of Bonn, where he laboured till his death, 17th December 1868. His chief works are Die Aeschyleische Trilogie (1824-26); Die Griech. Tragödien mit Rücksicht auf den epischen Cyklus (3 vols. 1839-41); Der epische Cyklus oder die Homerischen Dichter (2 vols. 1835-49); Griech. Götterlehre (3 vols. 1857-63). His Kleine Schriften (5 vols. 1844-67) contain his contributions to the Archäol. Zeitung, Rhein. Museum, &c. See the Life by Kekulé (1880).—His brother, KARL THEODOR WELCKER (1790-1869), was an eminent publicist and Liberal politician, filled chairs at Kiel, Heidelberg, Bonn, Freiburg, and edited with Rotteck the Staatslexikon (12 vols. 1834-44).