Editing Johann Georg Baiter

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{{Short description|Swiss philologist (1801–1877)}}
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| birth_date    = 31 May 1801
| birth_place   = [[Zürich]], Switzerland
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| death_place   = [[Zürich]], Switzerland
| nationality   = Swiss
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| occupation    = Philologist, textual critic
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'''Johann Georg Baiter''' (31 May 1801 – 10 October 1877) was a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[philologist]] and textual critic.

==Life==
He was born at [[Zürich]], where he received his early education. He went on in 1818 to the [[University of Tübingen]], but could not afford to stay there, and had to return to Zürich, where for several years he was a private tutor. From 1824 to 1829 he studied at [[Munich]] under [[Friedrich Thiersch]]; at [[university of Göttingen|Göttingen]], under [[Georg Ludolf Dissen]]; at [[university of Königsberg|Königsberg]], under [[Christian Lobeck]]. From 1833 to 1876 he was ''Oberlehrer'' at the gymnasium in Zürich, where he died.

==Work==
Baiter's strong point was [[textual criticism]], applied chiefly to [[Cicero]] and the Attic orators; he was very successful in finding the best manuscript authorities, and his collations were made with the greatest accuracy. Most of his works were produced in collaboration with other scholars, such as [[Johann Caspar von Orelli]], who regarded him as his right-hand man. He edited [[Isocrates]], [[Panegyricus (Isocrates)|Panegyricus]] (1831); with [[Hermann Sauppe]], [[Lycurgus of Athens|Lycurgus]]' ''Leocracea'' (1834) and ''Oratores Atticae'' (1838–1850); with Orelli and [[Johann Joachim Winckelmann|Winckelmann]], a critical edition of [[Plato]] (1839–1842), which marked a distinct advance in the text, two new manuscripts being laid under contribution; with Orelli, ''Babrius, Fabellae Iambicae nuper repertae'' (1845); ''Isocrates'', in the [[Didot family|Didot]] collection of classics (1846).

==Collaborators==
He had been associated with Orelli in his great work on Cicero, and assisted in ''Ciceronis Scholiastae'' (1833) and ''Onomasticon Tullianum'' (1836–1838). The ''Fasti Consulares'' and ''Triumphales'' were all his own work. With Orelli and (after his death) [[Karl Felix Halm]], he assisted in the second edition of the Cicero, and, with Carl Ludwig Kayser, edited the same author for the [[Tauchnitz]] series (1860–1869). New editions of Orelli's [[Gaius Cornelius Tacitus|Tacitus]] and [[Horace]] were also due to him. With Sauppe, he translated [[William Martin Leake]]'s ''Topography of Athens''.

==References==
* {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Baiter, Johann Georg}}

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