Becker, WILHELM ADOLF

Becker, WILHELM ADOLF, born at Dresden in 1796, studied theology and philology at Leipzig, and became in 1842 professor of Archaeology there. He died at Meissen, 30th September 1846. His lively fancy, aided by a thorough knowledge of the classic languages, enabled him to make a novel use of antiquity. In his Charicles (1840), he ventured to reproduce the social life of old Greece; and in his Gallus (1838), to give sketches of the Augustan age at Rome. His Handbuch der Römischen Alterthümer (1843-46) was, after his death, continued by Marquardt (vols. iii.-v. 1849-68).