Carl Meissner

Carl Meissner, born in 1830, is listed in major library catalogs as the author or editor of a long run of Latin school texts, phrase books, and editions of classical authors. Surviving records connected with his books show a career centered on helping students and teachers work more effectively with Latin.

His best-known legacy is the Latin Phrase-Book, a reference work that continued to circulate in English as well as German. Library listings also connect him with editions of Cicero and Terence, along with textbooks on Latin grammar, synonymy, and phraseology, suggesting that he was valued above all as a clear and practical guide for learners.

Reliable biographical detail beyond his birth year is limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to remember him as a scholar-teacher whose books outlasted his era and remained useful to later readers of the classics.