Becker, KARL FERDINAND

Becker, KARL FERDINAND, German philologist, was born at Liser, in the old electorate of Treves, in 1775. For five years a teacher, he afterwards studied medicine, and finally, in 1815, settled as a practitioner at Offenbach. Here he educated his own children with such success that several families induced him to take charge of theirs, and thus his house was converted into an academy (1823), which he conducted till his death in 1849. He wrote an Ausführliche Deutsche Grammatik (1836-39), and several other valuable treatises on the German language.