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GUDE (GUDIUS), MARQUARD (1635-1689), German archaeologist and classical
scholar, was born at Rendsburg in Holstein on the 1st of February 1635.
He was originally intended for the law, but from an early age showed a
decided preference for classical studies. In 1658 he went to Holland in
the hope of finding work as a teacher of classics, and in the following
year, through the influence of J. F. Gronovius, he obtained the post of
tutor and travelling companion to a wealthy young Dutchman, Samuel
Schars. During his travels Gude seized the opportunity of copying
inscriptions and MSS. At the earnest request of his pupil, who had
become greatly attached to him, Gude refused more than one professional
appointment, and it was not until 1671 that he accepted the post of
librarian to Duke Christian Albert of Holstein-Gottorp. Schars, who had
accompanied Gude, died in 1675, and left him the greater part of his
property. In 1678 Gude, having quarrelled with the duke, retired into
private life; but in 1682 he entered the service of Christian V. of
Denmark as counsellor of the Schleswig-Holstein chancellery, and
remained in it almost to the time of his death on the 26th of November
1689. Gude's great life-work, the collection of Greek and Latin
inscriptions, was not published till 1731. Mention may also be made of
his _editio princeps_ (1661) of the treatise of Hippolytus the Martyr on
Antichrist, and of his notes on Phaedrus (with four new fables
discovered by him) published in P. Burmann's edition (1698).
His correspondence (ed. P. Burmann, 1697) is the most important
authority for the events of Gude's life, besides containing valuable
information on the learning of the times. See also J. Moller, _Cimbria
literata_, iii., and C. Bursian in _Allgemeine deutsche Biographie_,
x.
GUDEMAN, ALFRED (1862- ), American classical scholar, was born in
Atlanta, Georgia, on the 26th of August 1862. He graduated at Columbia
University in 1883 and studied under Hermann Diels at the University of
Berlin. From 1890 to 1893 he was reader in classical philology at Johns
Hopkins University, from 1893 to 1902 professor in the University of
Pennsylvania, and from 1902 to 1904 professor in Cornell University. In
1904 he became a member of the corps of scholars preparing the Wolfflin
_Thesaurus linguae Latinae_--a unique distinction for an American
Latinist, as was the publication of his critical edition, with German
commentary, of Tacitus' _Agricola_ in 1902 by the Weidmannsche
Buchhandlung of Berlin. He wrote _Latin Literature of the Empire_ (2
vols., _Prose and Poetry_, 1898-1899), a _History of Classical
Philology_ (1902) and _Sources of Plutarch's Life of Cicero_ (1902); and
edited Tacitus' _Dialogus de oratoribus_ (text with commentary, 1894 and
1898) and _Agricola_ (1899; with _Germania_, 1900), and Sallust's
_Catiline_ (1903).
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