Editing Conrad Bursian (section)

==Principal works==
His favorite classical authors were [[Aristophanes]], [[Demosthenes]], [[Theocritus]] and the [[Greek tragedy|Greek tragedians]]; among the Romans, he favoured [[Lucretius]], [[Juvenal]] and the [[Elegiacs]].<ref name=DB>[http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Bursian,_Konrad ADB:Bursian, Konrad] at [[Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie]]</ref> He was editor of the ''{{ill|Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft|s:de}}'' (Annual report on the progress of classical studies),{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<ref>[http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Zeitschriften_(Altertumswissenschaft) German Wikisource]: Zeitschriften (Altertumswissenschaft)</ref> and wrote an outline of [[Greek art]] history for [[Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste|Ersch and Gruber's ''Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste'']].<ref name=DB/>

His most important works are:
*''Geographie von Griechenland'' (1862–1872) – Geography of Greece.
*''Beiträge zur Geschichte der klassischen Studien im Mittelalter'' (1873) – Contributions to the history of classical studies in the [[Middle Ages]]. 
*''Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland'' (1883) – History of classical philology in Germany.
*edition of [[Julius Firmicus Maternus]]' "De Errore Profanarum Religionum" (1856)
*edition of [[Seneca the Elder]]'s "Suasoriae" (1857).<ref>List of publications copied from an equivalent article at the [[German Wikipedia]].</ref>