A prolific philologist of both the German and classical languages, Moriz Haupt (1808 74) enjoyed a successful academic career at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin. As well as founding the Zeitschrift fur deutsches Altertum, which is still published, he was a painstaking yet somewhat bold editor of many classical texts. In the years immediately following his death, his shorter works were gathered together in this three-volume collection, edited by fellow philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848 1931). Volume 1 (1875) contains essays by Haupt in both Latin and German on a...

A prolific philologist of both the German and classical languages, Moriz Haupt (1808 74) enjoyed a successful academic career at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin. As well as founding the Zeitschrift fur deutsches Altertum, which is still published, he was a painstaking yet somewhat bold editor of many classical texts. In the years immediately following his death, his shorter works were gathered together in this three-volume collection, edited by fellow philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848 1931). Volume 2 (1876) contains the Latin text of forty-two lectures delivered by...

A prolific philologist of both the German and classical languages, Moriz Haupt (1808 74) enjoyed a successful academic career at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin. As well as founding the Zeitschrift fur deutsches Altertum, which is still published, he was a painstaking yet somewhat bold editor of many classical texts. In the years immediately following his death, his shorter works were gathered together in this three-volume collection, edited by fellow philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848 1931). Volume 3 (1876) originally appeared in two parts, which are reissued here...