Christian Daniel Beck

Christian Daniel Beck (22 January 1757 – 13 December 1832) was a German philologist, historian, theologian and antiquarian, one of the most learned men of his time.

In 1819, he also became editor of the Allgemeines Reportorium der neuesten in- und ausländischen Litteratur (Reports on the latest in domestic and foreign literature).

He also had the management of the university library, was director of the institute for the deaf and dumb, and filled many educational and municipal offices.

His philological lectures, in which grammar and criticism were subordinated to history, were attended by hearers from all parts of Germany.

He edited a number of classical authors:[1] He translated Ferguson's Fall of the Roman Republic and Goldsmith's History of Greece, and added two volumes to Bauer's Thucydides.