August Julius Edmund Pflugk

August Julius Edmund Pflugk (21 November 1803, Lychen – 15 December 1839, Danzig) was a German classical philologist and educator.

Beginning in 1821, he studied philology at the University of Berlin, followed by work as an assistant high school teacher in Danzig.

At Danzig, he taught classes in the disciplines of history and philology.

[1] He was the author of a series of editions involving the tragedies of Euripides that after his death were continued by philologist Reinhold Klotz (1807-1870).

[2][3] Other significant publications by Pflugk include: He was also the author of numerous smaller works on Sophocles, Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom, Arrian, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Dio Cassius and Tacitus.