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Curtius, Georg, 1820-1885
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- Curtius, George, 1820-1885
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Dates of existence
1820-1885
History
Georg Curtius (April 16, 1820 – August 12, 1885) was a German philologist. After an education at Bonn and Berlin, he was a schoolmaster in Dresden from ca. 1842, until he returned to Berlin University as privatdocent in 1845. In 1849 he was placed in charge of the Philological Seminary at Prague, and two years later was appointed professor of classical philology in Prague University. In 1852, he moved from Prague to a similar appointment at Kiel, and again in 1862 from Kiel to Leipzig. Georg Curtius was the brother of the historian and archeologist Ernst Curtius.