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SCHWARZ, Christian Gottlieb.

(1675 – 1751)

(Born: Leisnig, Saxony, Germany, 5 September 1675; Died: Altdorf, Germany, 24 February 1751) German philologist & historian.

Biographical references: ADB: 33, p. 227-8. DBA: I 1159, 18-105; II 1202, 296. Hirsching, Historisch-literarisches Handbuch, 1794-1815. Jöcher, Gelehrten-Lexikon, 1750-51. Meusel, Verstorbenen Teutschen Schrifsteller, 1802-16. NDB: 7, p. 681. WBI. Will, Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon, 1755-1808.

1. Latin, 1750.
Untersuchungen vom Meere die auf Veranlassung einer Schrift, De columnis Herculis, welche der hochberühmte Professor in Altorf, Herr Christ. Gottl. Schwarz. Franckft ; Leipzig, 1750.

8°: lxxvi, [14], 432 [i.e. 424], [44] p.

Very scarce. Other author, Johann Siegmund Valentin Popowitsch [1705-1774].

Occasioned by the work of Christian Gottlieb Schwarz, De columnis Herculis. The author's intense interest in philological matters is apparent in the introduction & variously in the text; the appended missive to five Leipzig scholars is devoted entirely to this subject; includes brief remarks on contemporary Austrian poets.

Bibliographical references: LKG: XIII 71.

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