Ludwig Preller (15 September 1809 –
21 June 1861) was a
German
philologist and antiquarian.
Born in
Hamburg
, he studied at Leipzig
, Berlin
and Göttingen
, in 1838 he was appointed to the professorship of
philology at the University of Dorpat
, which, however, he resigned in 1843.
He
afterwards spent some time in Italy
, but settled
in Jena
in 1844, where he became professor in 1846.
In the
same year he removed as head librarian to Weimar
.
His chief works are:
Demeter u. Persephone
(1837),
Griechische Mythologie (1854–1855) and
Römische Mythologie (1858). He also co-operated with
Heinrich Ritter in the preparation
of the most useful
Historia philosophiae graecae et romanae ex
fontium locis contexta (1838).
He contributed extensively to Ersch and
Gruber's
Allgemeine
Encyklopädie and
Pauly's
Realencyklopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft.
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