George Curtius

Georg Curtius (April 16, 1820 - August 12, 1885) was a German philologist. Curtius was born in Lübeck and was the brother of the historian and archaeologist Ernst Curtius. Having been educated in Bonn and Berlin, he studied at a school in Dresden for three years until (in 1845) he returned to Berlin University as a private individual. In 1849 he was appointed head of the philological seminary in Prague, and two years later he was appointed professor of classical philology at the University of Prague. In 1852 he moved from Prague to a similar meeting in Kiel, and then in 1862 from Kiel to Leipzig. From 1878 until his death, Curtius was the editor-in-chief of Leipziger Studien zur classischen Philologie. His Griechische Schulgrammatik, first published in 1852, went through more than twenty editions and was edited in English. In his last work, Zur Kritik der neuesten Sprachforschung (1885), he criticized the views of the emerging neo-grammar school of philology. Curtius died in Hermsdorf am Kinast, 65 years old, and was succeeded in Leipzig by Karl Brugmann. The opusculum of George Curtius was edited after his death by Ernst Windisch (Kleine Schriften von E.C., 1886-1887).