Background
August Matthiae was born on the 25th of December, 1769, at Göttingen, Germany.
August Matthiae was born on the 25th of December, 1769, at Göttingen, Germany.
August Heinrich Matthiae attended the University of Göttingen.
August Heinrich Matthiae spent some years as a tutor in Amsterdam. In 1798 he returned to Germany, and in 1802 was appointed director of the Friedrichsgymnasium at Altenburg.
August Heinrich Matthiae also was the of numerous important works: A copious Greek grammar, an edition of Euripides (9 vols. , 1813–1829), Grundriss der Geschichte der griechischen und römischen Litteratur (3rd ed. , 1834, Eng. trans. , Oxford, 1841), Lehrbuch fur den ersten Unterricht in der Philosophie (3rd ed. , 1833), Encyklopädie und Methodologie der Philologie (1835).
August Heinrich Matthiae was a famous classical philologist, school principal and author of numerous textbooks.