Bekker

Bekker, IMMANUEL, a scholar distinguished by his recensions of the texts of Greek classics, was born at Berlin in 1785, studied in Halle, and in 1811 became professor of Philology in his native city, where he died 7th June 1871. The results of his researches in the libraries of France, Italy, England, and Germany, appear in his numerous recensions of texts derived solely from MSS., and independently of printed editions. The writers included in these recensions are Plato, the Attic orators, Aristotle, Thucydides, Theognis, Aristophanes, as well as Livy and Tacitus.