Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand [SEP] date of birth
Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand
Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand (15 February 1786 – 14 March 1851), German classical scholar, was born at Plauen in Saxony.
He studied at Leipzig. In 1810 he became professor at the Weimar gymnasium, and in 1817 professor of philosophy and Greek literature at the University of Jena, where he remained till his death.
The work by which Hand is chiefly known is his (unfinished) edition of the treatise of Horatius Tursellinus (Orazio Torsellino, 1545-1599) on the Latin particles (
1844 – Euripides' ""Electra"".
- "Beiträge zur Charakteristik des Livius", 1847 – Contribution to the characteristics of Livy.
- "Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand nach seinem Leben und Wirken", 1852 – Biography of Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand.
- "C. Julii Caesaris Commentariorum de bello civili libri tres", 1853 – edition of Julius Caesar's ""Commentarii de Bello Civili"", book III.
- "Zweiter Beitrag zur Charakteristik des Livius", 1853 – Second contribution to the