Bernhardy, GOTTFRIED

Bernhardy, GOTTFRIED, a German scholar, born of Jewish parents near Frankfurt in 1800, was educated at Berlin, and in 1829 became director of the philological seminary at Halle. Here he died, May 14, 1875. Of his numerous philological works may be mentioned his Syntax der griechischen Sprache (1829); Paralipomena Syntaxis Græcæ (1854); and the critical edition of Suidæ Lexicon (4 vols. 1834-53). His works on Roman and Greek literature, especially the history of the latter, are also of high value.