Buttmann, PHILIPP

Buttmann, PHILIPP, was born at Frankfort in 1764, and studied at Göttingen under Heyne. He became in 1789 assistant in the Royal Library at Berlin, and rose successively to be secretary and librarian (1811). He held at the same time (1800-8) a professorship in the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. He died 21st June 1829. Buttmann is best known by his Greek grammar (1792; 22d ed. 1869) and Lexilogus (2 vols. 1818-25; 2d ed. 1860), both of which have been translated into English.