Ernst Friedrich Poppo
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Ernst Friedrich Poppo (August 13, 1794 - November 6, 1866), German classical scholar and schoolmaster, was born at Guben in Brandenburg.
In 1818 he was appointed director of the gymnasium at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, where he died on the 6th of November 1866, having resigned his post three years before.
Poppo was an extremely successful teacher and organizer, and in a few years doubled the number of pupils at the gymnasium. He is chiefly known, however, for his exhaustive and complete edition of Thucydides in four parts (11 vols., 1821-1840), containing
- prolegomena on Thucydides as an historian and on his language and style (Eng. trans. by George Burges, 1837), accompanied by historical and geographical essays
- text with scholia and critical notes
- commentary on the text and scholia
- indices and appendices. For the ordinary student a smaller edition (1843-1851) was prepared, revised after the author's death by JM Stahl (1875-1889).
See R Schwarze in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie and authorities there referred to.
This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.
