Jakob Bernays

Jakob Bernays (September 11, 1824 - May 26, 1881), German philologist and philosophical writer, was born at Hamburg of Jewish parents. His brother, Michael, was also a distinguished scholar. His father, Isaac Bernays (1792-1849), a man of wide culture, was the first orthodox German rabbi to preach in the vernacular. Jakob studied from 1844 to 1848 at the university of Bonn, the philological school of which, under Welcker and Ritschl (whose favourite pupil Bernays became), was the best in Germany. In 1853 he accepted the chair of classical philology at the newly founded Jewish theological college (the Frankel seminary) at Breslau, where he formed a close friendehip with Mommsen. In 1866, when Ritschl left Bonn for Leipzig, Bernays returned to his old university as extraordinary professor and chief librarian. He remained at Bonn until his death on the 26th of May 1881. His chief woiks, which deal mainly with the Greek philosophers, are:
  • Die Lebensbeschreibung des J.J. Scaliger (1855)
  • ber das Phokylidische Gesicht (1856)
  • Die Chronik des Sulpicius Severus (1861)
  • Die Dialoge des Aristoteles im Verhltniss zu seinen brigen Werken (1863)
  • Theophrastos' Schrift ber Frmmigkeit (1866)
  • Die Heraklitischen Briefe (1869)
  • Lucian und die Cyniker (1879)
  • Zwei Abhandlungen ber die Aristotelische Theorie des Dramas (1880).
The last of these was a republication of his Grundzge der verlorenen Abhandlungen des Aristoteles ber die Wirkung der Tragodie (1857), which aroused considerable controversy. See notices in Biographisches Jahrbuch fr Alterthumskunde (1881), and Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, xlvi. (1902); art, in Jewish Encyclopaedia; also Sandys, Hist, of Class. Schol. iii. I 76 (1908).
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