Gottfried Bernhardy (20 March 1800 – 14 May 1875), German philologist and literary historian, was born at Landsberg an der Warthe (now Poland) in the Neumark.

Two well-to-do uncles provided the means for his education, and in 1811 he entered the Joachimsthal gymnasium at Berlin.

Wolf (then advanced in years), August Böckh and Philipp Karl Buttmann.

In 1829, he succeeded Christian Carl Reisig as professor and director of the philological seminary at Halle, and in 1844 was appointed chief librarian of the university.

[1][2][3] The most important of Bernhardy's works were his histories (or sketches) of Greek and Roman literature:[1] A fifth edition of pts.