Talk:Karl Wilhelm Dindorf

Latest comment: 9 years ago by J. C. Ransohoff in topic Ludwig Dindorf

Ludwig Dindorf edit

The claim that Ludwig Dindorf "never held any academic position" needs a citation from a trustworthy source, as the German-language Wikipedia article on Dindorf states that he briefly held a professorship at Leipzig, before voluntarily abandoning his chair in order to concentrate on his philological research.

--J. C. Ransohoff (talk) 04:03, 25 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

John Edwin Sandys edit

According to John Edwin Sandys:

Karl Wilhelm Dindorf ( 1802-1883 ) , the eldest son of a professor of Hebrew at Leipzig , lost his father at the age of ten . Having thus been mainly left to his own resources , he acquired a singular independence of character and a habit of..

Perhaps, the preview of a book dated back to 1967 isn't fully available yet.