August Meineke

Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke (also Augustus Meineke; German: [ˈmaɪnəkə]; 8 December 1790 – 12 December 1870), German classical scholar, was born at Soest in the Duchy of Westphalia.

[1] He obtained his education at the University of Leipzig as a student of Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann.

After holding an educational post at Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), he was director of the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin from 1826 to 1856.

[1] He excelled in conjectural criticism, the comic writers and Alexandrine poets being his favourite authors.

[2] He was the first scholar since Richard Bentley to distinguish himself in the critical analyses of Menander and Philemon.