Friedrich August Wolf

In grammar school, he studied Latin and Greek as well as French, Italian, Spanish, and music.

[3] It was in Halle (1783–1807), with the support of ministers serving under Frederick the Great, that Wolf first laid down the principles of the field he would call "Philology".

During Wolf's time at Halle he published his commentary on the Leptines of Demosthenes (1789), which influenced his student Philipp August Böckh.

His most finished work, the Darstellung der Alterthumswissenschaft, though published at Berlin (1807), belongs essentially to the Halle time.

[3] Taking medical advice, Wolf travelled to the south but died on the road to Marseille, and was buried there.