BECK, CHRISTIAN DANIEL German philologist, historian, theologian and antiquarian, was professor of Greek and Latin literature, and later of history, at Leipzig.
He edited Pedo Albinovanus (1783), .Pindar and the Scholia (1792-95), Aristophanes (with others, 1794, etc.), Euripides (1778-88), Apollonius Rhodius (1797), Demosthenes, De Pace (1799), Plato (1813-19), Cicero (1795-1807), Calpurnius Siculus (1803). He translated Ferguson's Fall of the Roman Republic and Goldsmith's History of Greece, and added two volumes to Bauer's Thucydides.
See Nobbe, Vita C.D. Beckii (1837) ; and G. Hermann, Opuscula, v. 312.