BAITER, JOHANN GEORG Swiss philolo gist and textual critic, was born at Zurich and was Oberlehrer at the gymnasium there from 1833 to 1876. Baiter's strong point was textual criticism, applied chiefly to Cicero and the Attic ora tors; most of his works were produced in collaboration with other scholars, notably Orelli. He edited Isocrates, Panegyricus (1831) ; with Sauppe, Lycurgus, Leocratea (1834), and Oratores Attici (1838-5o) ; with Orelli and Winckelmann, a critical edition of Plato (1839-42), which marked a distinct advance in the text, two new mss. being collated; with Orelli, Babrius, Fabellae Iambicae nuper repertae (1845) ; Isocrates, in the Didot col lection of classics (1846). He assisted Orelli in his great work on Cicero, and assisted in Ciceronis Scholiastae (1833) and Onomas ticon Tullianum (1836-38). For the Fasti Consulares and Tri umphales he was alone responsible. With Orelli and (after his death) Halm, he assisted in the second edition of the Cicero, and, with Kayser, edited the same author for the Tauchnitz series (186o-69). New editions of Orelli's Tacitus and Horace were also due to him.