Education
From 1779 he studied at the University of Göttingen as a pupil of Christian Gottlob Heyne.
university professor classical philologist
From 1779 he studied at the University of Göttingen as a pupil of Christian Gottlob Heyne.
He wrote several books on ancient Greek literature. He is best remembered for his edition of the odes and epodes by the Roman poet Horace. In 1785 he became an associate professor at Göttingen, where he also worked in the university library.