BECK

CmtiBTiAN Daudsl, bom at Leipsic in 1757, qualified himself as an instructor there in 1779, became profe or of Greek and Latin in 1785, of history in 1819, and of Greek and Eoman literature in 1825, and continued till his death in 1832 to deliver valuable lectures on exegesis, philology, and arch seo logy. To the duties of his chair he added those arising from numerous official appointments of a public nature, but managed, while discharging all of them with scrupulous fidelity, to find time for the composition of many important works, and the editorship of a periodical entitled A General Repertory of the Most Recent Home and Foreign Literature. His work which is probably destined to live longest, is an Introduction to a Knowledge of the History of the World and its Inhabitants, in four vols.