Editing Franz Passow

{{Short description|German classical scholar and lexicographer (1786–1833)}}
'''Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich Passow''' (20 September 1786 – 11 March 1833) was a German [[classics|classical]] scholar and [[lexicographer]].<ref name=EB1911>{{EB1911|wstitle=Passow, Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich |volume=20 |page=890 |inline=1}}</ref>

==Biography==
He was born at [[Ludwigslust]] in the [[Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]]. In 1807 he was appointed to the professorship of [[Greek literature]] at the [[Weimar]] [[gymnasium (school)|gymnasium]] by [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], whose acquaintance he had made during a holiday tour; his lessons were attended by the young [[Arthur Schopenhauer]]. In 1815 he became professor of ancient literature at the [[University of Breslau]], where he continued to live until his death. His endorsement of [[gymnastics|gymnastic]] exercises, in which he himself took part, caused a quarrel known as the ''Breslauer Turnfehde''<ref name=EB1911/> (“Breslau gymnastics feud”).

==Works==
[[File:Passow - Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache (Auflage 1841–1857) - Buchrücken.jpg|thumb|A copy of Passow’s ''Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache'' (revised edition, 1841–1857)]]
Passow's great work was his ''Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache'' (1819–1824) ("Dictionary of the Greek Language"), originally a revision of [[Johann Gottlob Schneider]]'s lexicon, which appeared in the fourth edition (1831) as an independent work, without Schneider's name. Other works by Passow are ''Grundzüge der griech. und röm. Literatur und Kunstgeschichte'' (“Foundations of Greek and Roman Literature and History of Art”; 2nd ed., 1829) and editions of [[Persius]], [[Longus]], [[Tacitus]]'s ''[[Germania (book)|Germania]]'', [[Dionysius Periegetes]], and [[Musaeus Grammaticus|Musaeus]]. His miscellaneous writings were collected in ''Opuscula academica'' (“Minor academic works”; 1835) and ''Vermischte Schriften'' (“Miscellaneous writings”; 1843).<ref name=EB1911/>

Passow's Greek lexicon was the basis for the ''[[A Greek-English Lexicon|Greek-English Lexicon]]'' of [[Henry Liddell|Liddell]] and [[Robert Scott (philologist)|Scott]].

==Further reading==
* L. and A. Wachler, ''Franz Passow's Leben und Briefe'' (“Franz Passow's Life and Letters”; 1839).

==See also==
*[[Comparison of Ancient Greek dictionaries]]

==Notes==
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==External links==
*{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Passow, Franz |year=1905 |short=x}}

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