Editing Ludwig Preller (section)

==Biography==
Born in [[Hamburg]], he studied at [[University of Leipzig|Leipzig]], [[University of Berlin|Berlin]] and [[University of Göttingen|Göttingen]], in 1838 he was appointed to the professorship of philology at the [[University of Dorpat]], which, however, he resigned in 1843. He afterwards spent some time in Italy, but settled in [[Jena]] in 1844, where he became professor in 1846. In 1847 he relocated as head librarian to [[Weimar]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZD8EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA152 Staats- und Gesellschafts-Lexikon: neues Conversations-Lexikon ..., Volume 16 by Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Wagener] (biography translated from German)</ref>

His chief works are: ''Demeter und Persephone'' (1837), ''Griechische Mythologie'' (1854&ndash;1855) and ''Römische Mythologie'' (1858). He also co-operated with [[Heinrich Ritter]] in the preparation of ''Historia philosophiae graecae et romanae ex fontium locis contexta'' (1838).<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no93-6082  WorldCat Identities] (publications)</ref>

He contributed extensively to [[Johann Samuel Ersch|Ersch]] and [[Johann Gottfried Gruber|Gruber]]'s ''[[Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste|Allgemeine Encyklopädie]]'' and [[August Pauly|Pauly's]] ''[[Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft]]''.

He died in Weimar.