He excelled in conjectural criticism, the comic writers and Alexandrine poets being his favourite authors.[2] He was the first scholar since Richard Bentley to distinguish himself in the critical analyses of Menander and Philemon.[1]
Principal works
Fragmenta comicorum graecorum (1839–1857, the first volume of which contains an essay on the development of Greek comedy and an account of its chief representatives)
Sophoclis Oedipus Coloneus cum scholiis graecis. Accedunt Analecta Sophoclea (1863).[5]
Published in English: "The fragments of attic comedy after Meineke, Bergk, and Kock", 1957 by J M Edmonds (August Meineke; Theodor Bergk; Theodor Kock).
References
^ a b cA History of Classical Scholarship: The Eighteenth Century in Germany by John Edwin Sandys
^ a bOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Meineke, Johann Albrecht Friedrich August". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 83.
^Google Books Florilegium
^WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by August Meineke