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Gottfried Heinrich Schäfer (1764-1840), classical scholar and translator. Initially trained in theology, law, and medicine at the University of Leipzig, Schäfer later devoted himself to philology. After obtaining his habilitation in 1806, he was appointed Associate Professor at Leipzig in 1808 through the support of Gottfried Hermann, though he ultimately preferred a non-teaching role and served as university librarian from 1818 to 1833. Schäfer was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. His works includes translations of scientific and legal texts, as well as critical editions of classical authors such as Pliny the Younger, Catullus, Propertius, Thucydides, Demosthenes, Plutarch, and Apollonius of Rhodes. He also contributed to the revised edition of the Thesaurus linguae Graecae.