Johann Georg Wilhelm Pape (3 January 1807 – 23 February 1854) was a German classical philologist and lexicographer.
He is known today primarily as the author of his Griechisch-Deutsches Handwörterbuch [Concise Greek-German Dictionary], first published in 1842 and frequently reprinted in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
[1] After graduating in 1828, he became a teaching assistant at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin, one of the oldest high schools in Germany.
He gained his doctorate in Halle with a dissertation entitled Lectiones Varronianae, and was appointed a teacher at the Gymnasium in 1830.
[1] It was regarded as a serious competitor[2] to the Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache of Franz Passow, which became the basis for Liddell and Scott's A Greek–English Lexicon.