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Carl Meissner
b. 1830
Best remembered for making Latin composition much more practical, this 19th-century German schoolmaster created a phrasebook that stayed useful long after his own time. His work helped generations of students find natural Latin wording instead of translating too literally.
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Latin Phrase-Book
by Carl Meissner
About the author
Born on October 2, 1830, in Schackstedt in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Carl Meißner studied philology in Berlin from 1849 to 1852. He later taught at the Francisceum in Zerbst and then served as inspector at the town's Pädagogium, building his career in classical education.
He is most closely associated with Lateinische Phraseologie, the German work behind the widely known Latin Phrase-Book. That book was translated into English by H. W. Auden from Meißner's sixth German edition, and its long afterlife shows how valued Meißner's practical approach to Latin expression became among students and teachers.
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