Augustus Meineke

Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke (also Augustus Meineke; ; 8 December 179012 December 1870), German classical scholar, was born in Soest in the Duchy of Westphalia. He was father-in-law to philologist Theodor Bergk.

He obtained his education at the University of Leipzig as a student of Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann. After holding an educational post at Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), he was director of the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin from 1826 to 1856. In 1830 he became a member of the Berlin Academy. He died in Berlin on 12 December 1870. and Ioannis Stobaei Eclogarum physicarum et ethicarum libri duo, 1860). Poetarum comicorum Graecorum fragmenta, (1855; with Friedrich Heinrich Bothe). Theocritus, Bion, Moschus (3rd edition, 1856). Athenaeus of Naucratis (1858–1867); including Deipnosophistae e recognitione A. Meineke (1858). Aristophanis Comoediae, (1860, edition of Aristophanes' comedies). Callimachus (1861). Sophoclis Oedipus Coloneus cum scholiis graecis. Accedunt Analecta Sophoclea (1863). Published in English: "The fragments of attic comedy after Meineke, Bergk, and Kock", 1957 by J M Edmonds (August Meineke; Theodor Bergk; Theodor Kock).