Agathon Benary

Karl Albert Agathon Benary (17 January 1807, Kassel – 4 December 1860, Berlin) was a German classical philologist.

He received his education at the gymnasiums in Göttingen and Erfurt, where he was a student of Franz Ernst Heinrich Spitzner.

From 1824 to 1827 he studied classical philology at the universities of Göttingen and Halle, obtaining his doctorate with the dissertation "De Aeschyli Prometheo soluto".

After graduation, he worked as a high school teacher in Berlin, and in the meantime, continued his philological studies as a pupil of Franz Bopp.

His major work on Roman phonology, "Die römische Lautlehre sprachvergleichend dargestellt" (volume 1, 1837) unfortunately remained unfinished.