Ludwig Preller

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Ludwig Preller (15 September 1809 – 21 June 1861) was a German philologist and antiquarian.

Born in Hamburg, he studied at Leipzig, Berlin and Göttingen, in 1838 he was appointed to the professorship of philology at the University of Dorpat, which, however, he resigned in 1843. He afterwards spent some time in Italy, but settled in Jena in 1844, where he became professor in 1846. In 1847 he relocated as head librarian to Weimar.^[1]

His chief works are: Demeter u. Persephone (1837), Griechische Mythologie (1854–1855) and Römische Mythologie (1858). He also co-operated with Heinrich Ritter in the preparation of the most useful Historia philosophiae graecae et romanae ex fontium locis contexta (1838).^[2]

He contributed extensively to Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopädie and Pauly's Realencyklopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft.

References

↑ Staats- und Gesellschafts-Lexikon: neues Conversations-Lexikon ..., Volume 16 by Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Wagener (biography translated from German)
↑ WorldCat Identities (publications)

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 59832056 LCCN: no93006082 ISNI: 0000 0001 0906 5298 GND: 116282290

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Name	Preller, Ludwig
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Date of birth	15 September 1809
Place of birth	Hamburg
Date of death	21 June 1861
Place of death	Weimar

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