Bernhard Gerth [SEP] place of birth
Bernhard Gerth
Friedrich Bernhard Gerth (5 April 1844, Dresden – 1 February 1911, Leipzig) was a German educator and classical philologist.
In 1868 he received his PhD from the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on the dialects of Greek tragedy, titled ""Quaestiones de Graecae Tragoediae dialecto"". Later on, he served as a rector at gymnasiums in Zwickau and Leipzig (from 1901).
With Friedrich Blass, he published the third edition of Raphael Kühner's ""Ausführliche grammatik der griechischen sprache
. With Bernhard Gerth, he published an enlarged edition of Kühner's Greek grammar, "Ausführliche grammatik der griechischen sprache" (1890–1904, four volumes).
Among his other works are editions of Eudoxus of Cnidus (1887), the "Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία" (4th ed., 1903), a work of great importance, and Bacchylides (3rd. ed., 1904); "Grammatik des neutestamentlichen Griechisch" (1902; Eng. trans. by H St John Thackeray, 1905); "Hermeneutik und