Eduard Munk

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Eduard Munk (January 14, 1803 at Gross Glogau - May 3, 1871, Gross Glogau) was a German philologist. He was a cousin of Salomon Munk.

He studied from 1822 to 1825 at Breslau and Berlin, and was a favorite disciple of August Böckh. Munk was active as teacher, officiating from 1827 to 1848 at the Royal Wilhelmsschule at Breslau, and from 1850 to 1857 intermittently at the gymnasium of Glogau, and afterward as a private tutor. In 1862 he received the title of professor.

Munk was a profound student of classical literature. Though, without any prospects of a university professorship, on account of his Jewish religion, he nevertheless devoted all his life exclusively to study, the result of which he gave to the world in numerous works. The best-known of these are:

• "Die Metrik der Griechen und Römer" (Glogau, 1834)
• "De Fabulis Atellanis" (Leipsic, 1840)
• "Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur" (Berlin, 1849-50; 3d ed. by Volkmann, 1879-80)
• "Die Natürliche Ordnung der Platonischen Schriften" (Berlin, 1857)
• "Geschichte der Römischen Literatur" (ib. 1858-61; 2d ed. by Seyffert, 2 vols., 1875-77).

Some of Munk's works have been translated into English, Spanish, and Russian. Munk was an earnest student of Judaism and a faithful Jew.

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• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.