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Johan Nicolai Madvig The Classical Review http://journals.cambridge.org/CAR Additional services for The Classical Review: Email alerts: Click here Subscriptions: Click here Commercial reprints: Click here Terms of use : Click here Johan Nicolai Madvig John E. B. Mayor The Classical Review / Volume 1 / Issue 5-6 / June 1887, pp 123 - 124 DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X00183428, Published online: 27 October 2009 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0009840X00183428 How to cite this article: John E. B. Mayor (1887). Johan Nicolai Madvig. The Classical Review, 1, pp 123-124 doi:10.1017/S0009840X00183428 Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/CAR, IP address: 138.251.14.35 on 05 May 2015 The Classical Review JUNE 1887. JOHAN NICOLAI MADVIG. (7 Aug. 1804—12 Dec. 1886.) IN the Berliner Philologische Wochen- during which he was Minister of "Worship. schrift for 1887, nos. 6 and 7 (5 and 12 Febr.), From 1832-48 he was also University M. Cl. Gertz gives an account of his some- Librarian, and from 1848-74 (with the time teacher and late colleague, from which same interval) Inspector of Education. In I take what follows : the Danish Academy of Science he was Madvig was born in the town Svaneke in President from 1867 to his death. He was the island Bornholm. His father, grand- also an active politician, member of the father, and great-grandfather, filled the office Danish Parliament from 1848-74, and Pre- of ' Geriehtsschreiber' (magistrates' clerk). sident of the Council (Eeicbsrat) from As early as his tenth year Johan N. helped 1856-63. As Professor Eloquentiae he was his father to keep the books of the court. required to write the University programmes, The familiarity with law thus early gained collected in his Opuscula Academica (1834, was turned to account both in his writings 1842). He was engaged on a second enlarged and in practical life. edition of these volumes at his death. In In 1816 his father died, and in the next 1830 he published for the first time 'Cice- year by the help of friends he was sent ronis orationes sel. xii,' seven times reprinted to the grammar-school of Frederiksborg in with continual improvements (since 1876 Seeland. In 1820 he entered the University containing only ten speeches). In the same of Copenhagen, and in Jan. 1825 passed his year appeared Henrichsen's Cic. de or., in philological examination with the testimony : which his friend had a large share. In 1835 laudabilis unanimi consensu. A month later followed the Cato and Laelius of Cicero; appeared ' Gasparis Garatonii notae in in 1839 Madvig's opus maynum Cic. de fin. Ciceronis orationes, ex edit. Neap, seorsum (again 1869 and 1876). In 1840 appeared editae per quinque iuvenes Haunienses' ; the first Danish, in 1843 the first German, among the five were Madvig and his friends edition of his Latin Grammar; in 1846 the Elberling and R. Henrichsen. On the 15 first Danish, 1847 the first German, edi- July 1826 he defended for his master's tion of his Greek Syntax (supplemental degree his ' emendationes in Cic. libr. de legg. pamphlets ' Bemerkungen' u. s. w. accom- et acad.' Shortly after, when Prof. Thorla- panied each of the German grammars). The cius left Denmark for two years, Madvig Emendationes Livianae appeared 1860 (sec. was appointed his deputy. In 1828 he wrote enlarged ed. 1877) ; the edition of Livy, in 'epistola crit. ad Orellium de orat. Ver- which Ussing had a hand, 1861—6 (bks. i-v rinarum libris II extremis emendandis' and now in the 3rd, xxi-xxv in the 4th ed.). his doctor's dissertation ' de Q. Asconii . The third great critical work ' Adversaria et aliorum veterum interpretum in Ciceronis critica' appeared in 1871-73, and 1884. orationes commentariis.' Though Thorlacius Contributions to reviews, chiefly Danish, had returned, Madvig remained as Lector at were collected in ' Kleine philologische the University, and on T's death was ap- Schriften 1875 ' in a German version. In pointed Professor Eloquentiae (in the Latin preparing this work Madvig so strained his language and literature) on 17 Nov. 1829. already weak sight, that thenceforward he From 1826 to the end of 1879 he continued could scarcely read or write. He still con- to teach in the University with an interval tinued to lecture, employing his two daughters of three years (16 Nov. 1848—4 Dec. 1851), and various young friends and students as NOS. v. <& vi. VOL. i. 124 THE CLASSICAL KEVIEW. readers and secretaries. No important work, versarien und ihren Verfasser. Zur Abwehr —and that not only in classical philology,— geistloser Kritik in der klassischen Philo- escaped his attention; he read again many logie.' classical authors, and made acquaintance Cobet, in proposing Madvig's health as with others for the first time. For his last the acknowledged master of the critical art, great work ' The Constitution and Adminis- added : ' but we will not make a pope of tration of the Roman State ' (1881-2, 2 vols) you ; pugnabimus tecum, conlendemus tecum, he had already laid the foundation in his eoque vehementius pugnabimus, quo te vehe- lectures ; but he went over the whole ground, mentius admiramur.' Madvig began his re- including the corpus inscriptionum, anew. ply thus. Post Cobetum latine loqui vereor ; He was indisputably the greatest classical but soon passed from compliments to give scholar, that we have had in the Scandinavian some admirable advice to the students. I north, and a place will be made for him asked about his teachers; he said he was among the greatest, who have won distinction autodidalct. in this science in any land, at any time. It is melancholy to think that the article Gertz pays a warm tribute to Madvig's in which Ritschl charges Madvig with Phi- geniality, high sense of honour, and love of lautia, Authadeia, Hybris, has been em- truth ; to his tact in estimating and classi- balmed for all time in his Opuscula iii. 172. fying manuscript tradition ; to the thorough- It would be well however if some young ness and simplicity of his exegesis; to his scholar would act upon his suggestion that clear insight into the life of ancient Greece a critica vannus might do good service in and Rome ; to his services as minister of winnowing the chaff from the grain in state and inspector of schools. ' He was the Madvig's Adversaria. It is plain at first hero of the whole Danish student-world, and sight that Madvig's knowledge of metre was to the last delighted to associate with them.' imperfect; many of his guesses on minor authors are hasty, and would have been In 1875 I had the great happiness of abandoned by him on second thoughts ; in sitting next to Madvig at a dinner given by some cases the common lexicons prove the the University of Leyden to the guests at correctness of readings which he condemns. its tercentenary. I saw the first meeting His familiarity with ante- and post-classical between him and Cobet, and remembered Latin was by no means on a par with his the description given by the aged Gersdorf mastery of Ciceronian and Livian style. some ten years before, of the meeting be- Nor does he display that nice sense of usage tween Friedrich Jacobs and his old corre- which makes the study of J. F. Gronovius, spondent Gottfried Hermann. Madvig had Ruhnken, Heindorf, Cobet, so instructive. a singular grace and ease of manner. He Robust common sense, revolting against seemed to feel that 'humane letters' had impossibilities in thought or expression, a been freed from a stain, when I assured him clear perception of what the context required, that we in England were indignant with a close adherence to the ductus litterarum, Ritschl for admitting into the Rheinisches seem to me his great merits as a critic. Museum (1875, 91-117) a flippant1 article by Lehrs, ' Adversarien iiber Madvig's Ad- JOHN E. B. MAYOE. 1 See p. 117. ' Wie man die Begabnng eines Kopfes present editor of the Rh. Mus., who wrote in a pre- wie Madvig auch bezeichnen mbge, ein Geist ist er sentation copy of a tract MADVIQIO PHILOLOGORVM gar nieht.' How different the tone of Biicheler, the PRINCIPI S. PL. D. FRANC. BVECHELER GKEGAKIVS. NOTES ON CONDITIONAL SENTENCES. GBEATLY as the treatment of this subject general disregard of exceptional phenomena: has been improved by the labours of Good- in the following remarks therefore I shall win, there seems to be still plenty of work (1) address myself mainly to Latin: (2) for the reformer to do : and I gladly make consider primarily sentences which I call use of the Classical Review in order to ' normal/ ie. which have the same mood and submit some views of my own to the notice tense in both Protasis and Apodosis, and are of classical scholars. Considerations of space not affected by external influences of mood impose upon me brevity of statement and or tense: (3) consider only the verb of the.
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