Karl Wilhelm Piderit
Karl Wilhelm Piderit was a German classical philologist and educator.
From 1833 he studied at the University of Marburg, receiving his doctorate with a dissertation on the rhetorician Hermagoras of Temnos, titled Commentatio De Hermagora rhetora. In 1837 he became an apprentice-teacher at the gymnasium in Hersfeld, and two years later began teaching classes at a grammar school in Marburg. In 1844 he returned to Hersfeld as a teacher, and from 1850 performed similar duties at the gymnasium in Kassel. In 1853 he was appointed director of the Hanau gymnasium, a position he maintained up until his death in 1875.
Published works
He is best remembered for his scholarly editions of Cicero, of which, he published:De oratore. Partitiones oratoriae. Brutus.Piderit was also the author of:De Apollodoro Pergameno et Theodoro Gadarensi rhetoribus, 1842 - On Apollodorus of Pergamon and Theodorus of Gadara.Sophokleische Studien - Sophocles studies
Following the death of theologian August Friedrich Christian Vilmar in 1868, Piderit released several editions of his works:Ein Weihnachtsspiel aus einer Handschrift des 15. Jahrhunderts, 1869 - A Christmas play from a manuscript of the 15th century.Lebensbilder deutscher Dichter, 1869 - Biography of a German poet.Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli: nebst einem Anhang: Das evangelische Kirchenlied, 1869 - Martin Luther, Philip Melanchthon, Huldrych Zwingli: with an appendix: An evangelical hymn. Die Augsburgische Confession, 1870 - The Augsburg Confession.Die Lehre vom geistlichen Amt, 1870 - The doctrine of the ministry.Die genieperiode. Ein vortrag von A.F.C. Vilmar. Supplement zu des verfassers Literaturgeschichte, 1872 - The genius period: a lecture of August Friedrich Christian Vilmar: Supplement to the author's literary history.Lehrbuch der Pastoraltheologie, 1872 - Textbook of pastoral theology.