Karl Wilhelm Göttling

He attended the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in Weimar, and then, beginning in 1811, studied philology at the universities of Jena and Berlin.

At Jena he was also director of the philological seminary (from 1826) and university librarian, and in 1831 attained the title of full professor.

The greater part of his life, however, was devoted to the study of classical literature, especially the elucidation of Greek authors.

The contents of his Gesammelte Abhandlungen aus dem klassischen Altertum ("Collected treatises on classical antiquity," 2 vols., 1851–1863) and Opuscula Academica ("Brief academic works," published in 1869 after his death) sufficiently indicate the varied nature of his studies.

His smaller works were for the most part combined in Gesammelte Abhandlungen aus dem klassischen Altertum and Opuscula Academica (1869).