Theodor Bergk


Theodor Bergk was a German philologist, an authority on classical Greek poetry.

Biography

He was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, as the son of Johann Adam Bergk. After studying at the University of Leipzig, where he profited by the instruction of Gottfried Hermann, he was appointed in 1835 to the lectureship in Latin at the orphan school at Halle. After holding posts at Neustrelitz, Berlin and Cassel, he succeeded Karl Friedrich Hermann as professor of classical literature at Marburg. In 1852 he went to Freiburg, and in 1857 returned to Halle.
In 1868 he resigned his professorship, and settled down to study and literary work in Bonn. He died on 20 July 1881, at Ragatz in Switzerland, where he had gone for the benefit of his health.
Bergk's literary activity was very great, but his reputation mainly rests upon his work in connection with Greek literature and the Greek lyric poets. His Poetae Lyrici Graeci, and Griechische Litteraturgeschichte became standard works.
He also edited Anacreon, the fragments of Aristophanes, Aristophanes, Sophocles, a lyric anthology. Among his other works may be mentioned: Augusti Rerum a se gestarum Index ; Inschriften römischer Schleudergeschosse ; Zur Geschichte und Topographie der Rheinlande in römischer Zeit ; Beiträge zur römischen Chronologie.
His Kleine philologische Schriften were edited by Peppmüller, and contain, in addition to a complete list of his writings, a sketch of his life.

Works

  • '. Edidit Th. Bergk, Berolini typis et impensis G. Reimeri, 1840.
  • '. Edidit Theodorus Bergk, Lipsiae, Sumtu Reichenbachiorum fratrum, 1843.
  • *. Recensuit Theodorus Bergk. Editio altera auctior et emendatior. Lipsiae, apud Rechenbachios, 1853.
  • *Poetae Lyrici Graeci. Tertiis curis recensuit Theodorus Bergk. , , . Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1865–67.
  • *Poetae Lyrici Graeci. Recensuit Theodorus Bergk. Editionis quartae. , . Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1878–82.
  • Griechische Literaturgeschichte von Theodor Bergk. , , , . Berlin, Weimannsche Buchhanndlung, 1872–87.