Joseph Kopp

In 1827 he was appointed professor of philology at the University of Erlangen, where he became a good friend and colleague of orientalist Friedrich Rückert.

[1][2] He was not a prolific author of books, his best known literary effort being an edition of Damascius, titled Damascii philosophi Platonici Quaestiones de primis principiis (1826).

In 1831–34 he published a number of reviews on the editions of Aristotelian books, on works of Oriental literature, on the history of philosophy, etc.

[1] In 1888 novelist Fritz Reuter published Friedrich Rückert in Erlangen und Joseph Kopp.

Nach Familienpapieren dargestellt zum hundertjährigen Geburtstag des Dichters ("Friedrich Rückert in Erlangen and Joseph Kopp.