Anton Westermann
{{Short description|German classical philologist}}
Anton Westermann (18 June 1806, Leipzig – 24 November 1869, Leipzig) was a German classical philologist.
From 1825 to 1830, he studied philology at the University of Leipzig, where in 1833 he became an associate professor of classical philology. From 1834 to 1865, he was a full professor of Greek and Roman literature at Leipzig. On four separate occasions he was dean to the faculty of philosophy.[http://www.uni-leipzig.de/unigeschichte/professorenkatalog/leipzig/Westermann_1315/ Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig] Biographical sketch
He is known for his edition and critical examination of Demosthenes, for his edition of works by ancient authors such as Plutarch, Lysias, Callistratus and Philostratus, and for his scholarly treatment of Greek mythography ("Mythographoi"), biography ("Biographoi") and paradoxography ("Paradoxographoi").[https://books.google.com/books?id=16JUAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22anton+westermann%22+1806&pg=PA163 A History of Classical Scholarship: The eighteenth century in Germany] by Sir John Edwin Sandys His edition of Heraclitus' epistles, Heracliti Epistolae quae feruntur (1857), later appeared in Rudolf Hercher's Epistolographi Graeci.[https://books.google.com/books?id=OAwtAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Heracliti+Epistolae+quae+feruntur%22+Hercher&pg=PA601 Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity] edited by Carl R. Holladay, John T. Fitzgerald, James W. Thompson, Gregory E. Sterling
Published works
=Editions of classical authors=
- Plutarchi Vitae decem oratorum, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1833.
- Paradoxographoi, scriptores rerum mirabilium graeci, Braunschweig 1839.
- Stephani Byzantii Ἐθνικῶν [Ethnicorum] quae supersunt, 1839; (edition of Ethnika by Stephanus of Byzantium)
- Diogenis Laertii De clarorum philosophorum : vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus libri decem, 1842; (part of series: Bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum editore A. Firmin-Didot, with other authors).
- Mythographoi. Scriptores poeticae historiae Graeci, Braunschweig 1843.
- Biographoi. Vitarum scriptores Graeci minores, Braunschweig 1845.
- Philostratorum et Callistrati opera, 1849 (with other authors)
- Lysiae Orationes, 1854
- Heracliti epistolae (Leipzig 1857)
=School editions (''Schulausgaben'')=
- Ausgewählte Reden des Demosthenes erklärt (Berlin: Weidmann)
- 1. Bändchen: Reden I–VI und VIII–IX (1851 [https://books.google.com/books?id=abZHAAAAIAAJ digitized]; 18532 [https://archive.org/details/ausgewhltereden01demogoog digitized]; 18563 [https://books.google.com/books?id=Db4sAQAAMAAJ digitized]; 18604 [https://books.google.com/books?id=hGkUAAAAQAAJ digitized]; 18665 [https://books.google.com/books?id=PxYqAAAAYAAJ digitized]; 18716 [https://books.google.com/books?id=f_wpAAAAYAAJ digitized]; 18757 von {{ill|Emil Heinrich Otto Müller|lt=Emil Müller|de|Emil Heinrich Otto Müller}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfBfAAAAcAAJ digitized]; 18838, 18919 [https://books.google.com/books?id=WrHQP1LjW2sC digitized] und 190210 [https://archive.org/details/ausgewhltereden01rosegoog digitized] besorgt von Emil Rosenberg)
- 2. Bändchen: Reden XVIII und XX (1850 [https://books.google.com/books?id=abZHAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PP1 digitized]; 18552 [https://books.google.com/books?id=Db4sAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1 digitized]; 18603 [https://books.google.com/books?id=-Hw-AAAAcAAJ digitized]; 18684 [https://books.google.com/books?id=PxYqAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PP5 digitized]; 18745 [https://books.google.com/books?id=uzoXAAAAYAAJ digitized]; 18856 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7KhoE1okw8kC digitized] und 19037 besorgt von Emil Rosenberg)
- 3. Bändchen: Reden XXIII, LIV und LVII (1852 [https://books.google.com/books?id=Db4sAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PP1 digitized]; 18652 [https://books.google.com/books?id=uzoXAAAAYAAJ&&pg=RA1-PA1 digitized]; 18903 besorgt von Emil Rosenberg [https://books.google.com/books?id=7KhoE1okw8kC&pg=RA1-PA1 digitized])
=Translations=
- Demosthenes' Ausgewählte Reden verdeutscht (4 volumes) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hInS9P-2ZWwC digitized]
- 1. Bändchen: [Reden I–VI und VIII–IX]: Olynthische; Friede; Chersones; gegen Philippus (Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1856)
- 2. Bändchen: Aeschines' [Rede II] und Demosthenes' [Rede XVIII] Reden gegen und für Ktesiphon von Kranze (Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, 1859)
- 3. Bändchen: Rede gegen Leptines [XX] und Meidias [XXI] (Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, 1863; Stuttgart und Leipzig: Wilhelm Nübling3)
- 4. Bändchen: Reden gegen Androtion [XXII], gegen Aristokrates [XXIII], gegen Aphobos [XXVII–XXVIII], gegen Onetor [XXX–XXXI], gegen Konon [LIV], gegen Eubulides [LVII] (Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1868)
=Other=
- Quaestiones Demosthenicae, 4 volumes, Leipzig 1830–37.
- Geschichte der Beredtsamkeit in Griechenland und Rom, 2 volumes, Leipzig 1833-1835 – History of eloquence in Greece and Rome.
- Die Modalität der Athenischen Gesetzgebung, geprüft an den in die Rede des Demosthenes gegen Timokrates §§ 20 - 23, 27, 33, 39, 40, 59 (Untersuchungen über die in die Attischen Redner eingelegten Urkunden, Tl. 1), Leipzig 1850 – The modality of Athenian legislation examined in the speech of Demosthenes against Timocrates. Investigations on proceedings in the Attic orators' documents.
- Untersuchung über die in die attischen Reden eingelegten Urkunden (Leipzig 1850, 2 parts)
- Index graecitatis Hyperideae (Leipzig 1860–64, 8 parts)
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