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Johann Georg Baiter (
May 31,
1801 -
October 10,
1877), was a
Swiss philologist and textual critic.
He was born at
Zürich, where he received his early education. He went on in
1818 to the
University of Tübingen, but couldn't afford to stay there, and had to return to Zürich, where for several years he was a private tutor. From
1824 to
1829 he studied at
Munich under
Friedrich Thiersch; at
Göttingen, under
Georg Dissen; at
Königsberg, under
Christian Lobeck. From
1833 to
1876 he was
Oberlehrer at the gymnasium in Zürich, where he died.
Baiter's strong point was
textual criticism, applied chiefly to
Cicero and the Attic orators; he was very successful in finding the best manuscript authorities, and his collations were made with the greatest accuracy. Most of his works were produced in collaboration with other scholars, such as
Johann Caspar von Orelli, who regarded him as his right-hand man. He edited
Isocrates,
Panegyricus (
1831); with Sauppe,
Lycurgus, Leocralca (
1834) and
Oratores Atticae (
1838-
1850); with Orelli and
Winckelmann, a critical edition of
Plato (
1839-
1842), which marked a distinct advance in the text, two new manuscripts being laid under contribution; with Orelli,
Babrius, Fabellae Iambicae nuper repertae (1845);
Isocrates, in the Didot collection of classics (
1846).
He had been associated with Orelli in his great work on Cicero, and assisted in
Ciceronis Scholiastae (
1833) and
Onomasticon Tullianum (
1836-
1838). The
Fasti Consulares and
Triumphales were all his own work. With Orelli and (after his death)
Karl Felix Halm, he assisted in the second edition of the Cicero, and, with Kayser, edited the same author for the
Tauchnitz series (
1860—
1869). New editions of Orelli's
Tacitus and
Horace were also due to him. It is worth noting that, with Sauppe, he translated Leake's
Topography of Athens.
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