Background
Nauck was born at Auerstedt in present-day Thuringia.
Nauck was born at Auerstedt in present-day Thuringia.
He studied at the University of Halle as a student of Gottfried Bernhardy and Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier.
His chief work was the Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (TrGF). In 1853 he became an adjunct under August Meineke at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. After a brief stint as an educator at the Grauen Kloster (1858), he relocated to Saint St. Petersburg, where in 1869, he was appointed professor of Greek at the historical-philological institute.
Nauck was one of the most distinguished textual critics of his day, although, like PH Peerlkamp, he was fond of altering a text in accordance with what he thought the author must, or ought to, have written.
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople.