Friedrich Dubner, a German philologist, born at Horselgau, near Gotha, Dec. 21, 1802, died Oct. 13, 1867. In 1826 he was appointed professor in the gymnasium at Gotha, and during the five years that he held this post published philological articles in the periodicals, and especially became known by his edition of Justin. His principal studies were upon the ancient comic authors, and he resigned his professorship in order to visit Italy and collate the original manuscripts. At this time Didot invited him to Paris to assist in preparing a new edition of Stephens's Thesaurus, a call which the valuable manuscripts contained in the Parisian libraries induced him to accept. He was employed on the Bibliotheca Groeca which Didot had undertaken, and contributed the critical editions of the Moralia of Plutarch, of Arrian, Maximus Tyrius, and Hime-rius, and the scholia to Aristophanes and Theocritus. He also took part in preparing the Parisian editions of St. Augustine and St. Chry-sostom. In 1855 he published an elementary Greek grammar, and in 1860 a French-Greek lexicon, besides some works on education.