Georg Heinrich Lünemann

Life & Legacy

Georg Heinrich Lünemann (3 September 1780, in Göttingen – 8 January 1830, in Göttingen) was a German classical philologist and lexicographer. His younger brother, Johann Heinrich Christian Lünemann (1787–1827), was also a classical philologist.
He studied classical philology at the University of Göttingen, and in 1803 succeeded Georg Friedrich Grotefend as an instructor of Greek and Latin at the gymnasium in Göttingen. He is best known for his revised editions of Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller's Latin dictionaries. He also published numerous editions of classical authors for classroom purposes; its authors including: Horace (1818), Virgil (1818), Phaedrus with Avianus, Publilius Syrus and Dionysius Cato (1823), Sallust (1825), Tacitus (1825) and Curtius Rufus (1827).