August Ferdinand Naeke
German classical philologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, August Ferdinand Naeke was a German classical philologist. He studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig as a pupil of Gottfried Hermann, receiving his doctorate in 1810. After graduation, he worked as a teacher at the Pädagogium of the Francke Foundations in Halle an der Saale. In 1817 he became an associate professor of classical philology, and during the following year, relocated to the University of Bonn, where in 1820 he obtained a full professorship. He is most famous today for having observed that in epic hexameters, it is rare to have a word end a spondaic fourth foot . This is known as Naeke's Law, which he explained in "Callimachi Hecale," Rheinisches Museum 3 509-68.
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