Dindorf, WILHELM

Dindorf, WILHELM, a famous Hellenist, born 2d January 1802 at Leipzig, where his father Gottlieb Immanuel Dindorf (died 1812) was professor of Oriental Languages. In 1817 he began his studies in philology at Leipzig, under Gottfr. Hermann and Chr. Daniel Beck, declined a call to Berlin in 1827, and next year accepted an extraordinary professorship at Leipzig, which he resigned in 1833 to devote himself entirely to his literary activity. Here he died, 1st August 1883. Dindorf's long life gave many contributions of the first value to Greek scholarship, especially in the region of dramatic poetry. Among his works were the preparation of vols. 7-13 of the great Invernizzi-Beck edition of Aristophanes (1820-34), editions of Aristophanes, with notes and scholia (1835-39), of Æschylus (1841-51), Euripides (1834-63), Sophocles, with notes (1832-36), and a second vol. of the series of scholia to Sophocles, edited by Elmsley (1852), also an edition with annotations and scholia of Demosthenes (1846-51), all printed at Oxford. Other works are those on the metres of Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes (1842); the lexicons to Sophocles (1871) and Æschylus (1873-76); his edition of the text of Homer (1855-56), and of the scholia to the Odyssey (1855) and the Iliad (1875-77). With Hase and his brother Ludwig (1805-71) he edited the Thesaurus Graecæ Linguæ of Stephanus (1832-65).