Career
In 1818 he was appointed director of the gymnasium at Frankfurt an der Oder, where he died on 6 November 1866, having resigned his post three years before. Poppo was an extremely successful teacher and organizer, and in a few years doubled the number of pupils at the gymnasium. He is chiefly known, however, for his exhaustive and complete edition of Thucydides in four parts (11 vols, 1821-1840), containing:
A prolegomenon on Thucydides as an historian and on his language and style (Engineer transport by George Burges, 1837), accompanied by historical and geographical essays
The text with scholia and critical notes
A commentary on the text and scholia
Indices and appendices.
Foreign the ordinary student a smaller edition (1843-1851) was prepared.
This edition was revised after the author"s death by Johann Matthias Stahl (1875–1889). See Rudolf Schwarze in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie and authorities there referred to
