Bernays, JAKOB, an eminent philologist, born of Jewish parents at Hamburg in 1824, made his studies at Bonn, where he became professor and librarian in 1866, and died, May 26, 1881. Among his numerous books were a Life of Scaliger (1855), Lucian und die Cyniker (1879), an edition of Lucretius (1852), and a translation of three books of Aristotle's Politics (1872). His Gesammelte Abhandlungen were edited by Usener (1885).
Bernays, JAKOB
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