Historiae graecae capita praecipua, seu Excerpta ex Herodoto, Thucydide, Xenophonte. Collegit August Matthiae

August Matthiae (1769-1835), classical philologist and secondary school teacher. Matthiae studied Classical Philology at the University of Göttingen under Heyne, whose influence decisively shaped his scholarly orientation. After early philological work on Greek fragments and the Homeric Hymns, he pursued an academic career primarily within secondary education. From 1802 he served as director of the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Altenburg. His scholarly output includes the Ausführliche griechische Grammatik (1807), widely used in German schools, and a large critical edition of Euripides (1813-1829). He also produced pedagogical compilations of Greek prose authors, intended for advanced instruction. DB