GOMPERZ, THEODOR (1832-1912), German philosopher and classical scholar, was born at Briinn on March 29, 1832. He studied at Brunn and at Vienna under Herman Bonitz. He became professor of classical philology in 1873. In 1882 he was elected a member of the Academy of Science. He received the D. Ph. honoris cause from Konigsberg, and the D. Litt. from Dublin and Cambridge, and became correspondent for several learned societies. He died Aug. 29, 1912, at Baden, Austria.
His principal works are: Demosthenes der Staatsmann (1864), Philodemi de ira liber (1864) , Traumdeutung and Zauberei (1866) , Herkulanische Studien (1865-1866), Beitrage zur Kritik and Erkldr ung griech. Schri f tsteller (7 vols., 1875-1900) , Neue Bruchstiicke Epikurs (1876), Die Bruchstiicke der griech. Tragiker and Cobets neueste kritische Manier (1878) , Herodoteische Studien (1883) , Ein bisher unbekanntes griech. Schri f tsystem (1884) , Zu Philodems Buchern von der Musik (1885), Uber den Abschluss des herodoteischen Geschichtswerkes (1886), Platonische Aufsdtze (3 vols., 1887-1905), Zu Heraklits Lehre and den Uberresten seines Werkes (1887) , Zu Aristoteles' Poetik (2 parts, 2888-96), Uber die Charaktere Theo phrasts (i888), Nachlese zu den Bruchstiicken der griech. Tragiker (1888), Die Apologie der Heilkunst (189o), Philodem and die asthet ischen Schri f t en der herculanischen Bibliothek (1891) , Die Schri f t vom Staatswesen der Athener (1891) , Die jiingst entdeckten Uberreste einer den Platonischen Phadon enthaltenden Papyrusrolle (1892), Aus der Hekale des Kallimachos (1893) , Essays and Erinnerungen (1905) . He supervised a translation of J. S. Mill's complete works (12 vols., Leip zig, 1869-80), and wrote a life (Vienna, 1889) of Mill. His Griechische Denker: Geschichte der antiken Philosophie (vols. i. and ii., Leipzig, 1893 and 1902) was translated into English by L. Magnus and G. G. Berry (1901-12) .