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Christian August Lobeck
German scholar
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modern classical scholarship
- In classical scholarship: The new German humanism
…had many distinguished pupils, including C.A. Lobeck (1781–1860), a grammarian of great learning and acuteness, who in his famous book Aglaophamus (1829) refuted the seductive but dubious theory of the Heidelberg professor G.F. Creuzer that the mythology of Homer and Hesiod contained symbolic elements of an ancient Oriental revelation from…
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