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PLATON, (PLATO), Symposion. Gastmahl. Ein Dialog. Hin und wieder verbessert und mit kritischen und erklärenden Anmerkungen herausgegeben von Fr. A. Wolf. Bei E.B. Schwickert, Leipzig, 1828. Rev.ed. LXXIV,136p. Hard bound. With gilt titled vignette to spine. Title fading. Part of spine, joints, edges cover as well as corners scratched. Note on free endpaper. ‘Friedrich August Wolf (1759-1824) is one of those literary figures who hovers between fame and obscurity, somehow without deserving either. Wolf was a professional classicist, a man of extreme erudition, and a good friend of Wilhelm von Humboldt and of Goethe. Through these acquaintances he took part in the Neo-Hellenism of that fertile period in German letters during the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth. (…) Among classicists he is best remembered for his work on Homer, for he was the first to defend systematically the analytic theory. (…) Wolf was as influential as any single scholar in creating the modern discipline of classical studies. He coined the term ‘Altertumswissenschaft’ (…), and helped to make it the first modern humanistic discipline. His concept of scholarly method remains influential today. (…) For this reason alone, Wolf’s work deserves to be better known and better understood by contemporary classicists.’ (JAY BOLTER, University of North Carolina, 1979). From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 95.00 (Antiquarian)