Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Wilhelm
- Family name
- Wolf
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Place of birth
- Hainrode
- Place of death
- Marseille
- Occupation
- literary critic
- Position held
- Geheimrat
- Educated at
- University of Göttingen
- Languages spoken
- German
- Student of
- Christian Gottlob Heyne
- Doctoral student
- August Böckh
- Field of work
- philology
- Image
- Portrait of Friedrich August Wolf (1823).jpg
- Work location
- Osterode am Harz
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- Commons category
- Friedrich August Wolf
- date of birth
- 1759-02-15
- date of death
- 1824-08-08
- student
- August Böckh
- name in native language
- Friedrich August Wolf
- writing language
- Latin
- P8168
- Silis
- archives at
- Berlin State Library
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Works in European collections
32 objects attributed to Friedrich August Wolf, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Liber De Xenophane, Zenone, Gorgia, Aristoteli Vulgo Tributus, Passim Illustratur Commentatione :Quam Praeside Viro Excellentissimo, Amplissimo, Doctissimo, Friderico Augusto Wolf Eloq. Et Poes. Professore Publ. Ord. Academiae Bibliothecario Sec., Seminarii Philologici Regii Directore, Die Maii MDCCLXXXIX.
Sermons. 6
Prolegomena ad Homerum sive De operum Homericorum prisca et genuine form variisque mutationibus et probabili ratione emendandi [Printed text]
Museum der Alterthums Wissenschaft [Printed Text]
Kleine Schriften in lateinischer und deutscher Sprache. II
Liber De Xenophane, Zenone, Gorgia, Aristoteli Vulgo Tributus, Passim Illustratur Commentatione :Quam Praeside Viro Excellentissimo, Amplissimo, Doctissimo, Friderico Augusto Wolf Eloq. Et Poes. Professore Publ. Ord. Academiae Bibliothecario Sec., Seminarii Philologici Regii Directore, Die Maii MDCCLXXXIX.
Sermons. 4
Friedrich August Wolf 's encyclopedia of philology: after his lectures in the winter half of 1789 - 1799
Vermischte Schriften und Aufsätze in lateinischer und deutscher Sprache
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[Christian Wilhelm] Fr. Aug. Wolf’s presentation of antiquity science: along with a selection of his little writings...
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Antiques of Greece: or history of the state constitution, the state of religion, the customs, the way of thinking and living of the most important Greek states from the oldest to the loss of their freedom: a guide for academic lectures
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Small writings in Latin and German. 1, Scripta latina
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Encyclopedic overview
Portrait by Johann Eduard Wolff [de], 1823 Friedrich August Wolf (/ˈvɔːlf/; German: [vɔlf]; 15 February 1759 – 8 August 1824) was a German classicist who is considered the founder of classical and modern philology.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Friedrich August Wolf” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.