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the whole range of ancient thought and action enabled him to shed a 

 flood of light on all the parts. 



To enumerate the works of Boeckh would take us far beyond the 

 bounds of this brief notice. As Professor of Poetry and Ancient 

 Literature, the representative and spokesman of the University, he 

 was officially bound to deliver orations on public occasions and to write 

 the University programmes. The collection of Orations and Disserta- 

 tions published in three volumes from 1858 to 1866 gives but little 

 idea of his gigantic industry. Of his larger books we need hardly 

 name his Pindar, his Collection of Greek Inscriptions, and his Public 

 Economy of Athens. 



While Boeckh was known to foreign countries by his works, at home 

 he exerted an influence equally great by his personal teachings. In his 

 younger days he lived in intimate relations with his pupils, quite carry- 

 ing out the old academic idea of Master and Disciples, now among the 

 traditions of the past. As the University grew and his own audiences 

 became larger, this was no longer possible, and his connection with the 

 younger generation was confined to his labors in the Seminary and his 

 Lectures. The Lectures, which were partly exegetical and partly sys- 

 tematic, — among the latter the courses on Antiquities and on the 

 Encyclopaedia of Philology being particularly prized, — were marked 

 by the same minuteness of detail and the same general grasp which 

 characterized his books. His style and delivery were plain and to the 

 point, giving an impression of immense shrewdness and reserve power, 

 and the earnestness of his discourse was every now and then lighted 

 up by a flash of homely drollery. 



Grown old among his books, he celebrated the sixtieth anniversary 

 of his Doctorate, March 15, 1867, and received such an ovation 

 from scholars, citizens, and crowned heads as is never given to a scholar 

 out of Germany and seldom equalled there. Shortly after, he died. 



Karl Joseph Anton Mittermaier, borti at Munich, August 

 5, 1787, died at Heidelberg, August 28, 1867, at the age of 

 eighty, after a life of zealous, honorable, and learned labor in the 

 cause of science and humanity. In 1819 he became a Professor of 

 Law at Bonn, whence, in 1834, he was transferred to Heidelberg. In 

 1859 he celebrated his professional jubilee. For more than half a 

 century he was well known as a teacher and writer on subjects of 

 great interest in civil and criminal law. His learning was not ab- 

 sorbed in the past, but put to constant service in behalf of the 



