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Welcker was born on 4 November 1784 at Grünberg, Hesse-Darmstadt.
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Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784-1868) championed a comprehensive approach to antiquity, embracing history, literature, art and religion. This, and his openness to contemporary philosophical ideas about aesthetics and mythology, gave his work a visionary quality that inspired later figures as diverse as Usener and Wilamowitz. In this three-volume work on tragedy, his largest, published between 1839 and 1841, he attempts to reconstruct all the lost trilogies and tetralogies of Greek tragic theatre, insisting on their artistic unity, and demonstrating their fundamental debt to the Epic Cycle (which he had investigated in his Der Epische Cyclus, also reissued in this series). Amid much that is fantastic he made many brilliant discoveries, such that he must still be consulted by all serious students of the subject. Volume 3 discusses Greek tragedy in the Hellenistic period and the influence of Greek tragedy on later Roman drama.
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Welcker was born on 4 November 1784 at Grünberg, Hesse-Darmstadt.
He studied classical philology at the university of Giessen.
Having studied classical philology at the university of Giessen, he was appointed (1803) master in the high school, an office which he combined with that of lecturer at the university.
In 1806 he journeyed to Italy, and was for more than a year private tutor at Rome in the family of Wilhelm von Humboldt, who became his friend and correspondent.
Welcker returned to Giessen in 1808, and resuming his school- teaching and university lectures was in the following year appointed the first professor of Greek literature and archaeology at that or any German university.
After serving as a volunteer in the campaign of 1814 he went to Copenhagen to edit the posthumous papers of the Danish archaeologist Georg Zoёga (1755 - 1809), and published his biography, Zoegas Leben (Stutt. 1819).
In 1841-1843 he travelled in Greece and Italy (cf. his Tagebuch, Berlin, 1865), retired from the librarianship in 1854, and in 1861 from his professorship, but continued to reside at Bonn until his death. Welcker was a pioneer in the field of archaeology, and was one of the first to insist, in opposition to the narrow methods of the older Hellenists, on the necessity of co-ordinating the study of Greek art and religion with philology.
Besides early work on Aristophanes, Pindar, and Sappho, whose character he vindicated, he edited Aleman (1815), Hipponax (1817), Theognis (1826) and the Theogony of Hesiod (1865), and published a Sylloge epigrammalum Graecorum (Bonn, 1828).
His Griechische Gotterlehre (3 vols. , Gottingen, 1857-1862) may be regarded as the first scientific treatise on Greek religion. Among his works on Greek literature the chief are Die Aschyleische Trilogie (1824, 6), Der epische Zyklus oder die Homerischen Gedichte (2 vols. 1835, 49), Die griechischcn Tragodien mit Riicksickt auf den epischen Zyklus geordnet (3 vols. , 1839 - 1S41).
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His editions and biography of Zoёga, his Zeitschrift fur Geschichte und Auslegung der alien Kunst (Gottingen, 1817, 8) and his AUe Denkmdler (5 vols. , 1849 - 1864) contain his views on ancient art.