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Friedrich August Wolf
German philologist (1759–1824) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Friedrich August Wolf (German: [vɔlf]; 15 February 1759 – 8 August 1824) was a German classicist who is considered the founder of classical and modern philology.
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