Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier
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Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier (1796-1855) was a German classical scholar, born at Glogau. When 24 years of age he became professor extraordinarius at the University of Greifswald, and in 1824 was made professor ordinarius at Halle, where he remained until his death. Friedrich August Wolf, and especially Wolf's great pupil, August Boeckh, whose classic work on the public economy of Athens appeared in 1817, had a great influence on Meier. His own first important publication dealt with a question in the legal antiquities of Athens, Historia Juris Attici de Bonis Damnatorum, etc. (Berlin, 1819); but his greatest work was written in collaboration with G. F. Schömann, Der Attische Process (Berlin, 1824); and was crowned by the Berlin Royal Academy. This treatise, now revised by J. H. Lipsius (Berlin 1883-87), remains the standard work on Athenian legal procedure. Meier also prepared an edition of Demosthenes Against Meidias and published many papers on subjects relating to classical antiquity, especially Andocides and Theophrastus; these were collected after his death in Opuscula (1861-63). Much of his energy, however, while resident at Halle, was spent on editorial duties, as he was an editor of the Halle Allgemeine Zeitung for many years, and also coeditor of the Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste from 1830 to 1855.
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