BERNHARDY, GOTTFRIED (I 7 5) , German philologist and literary historian, was born of Jewish parents at Landsberg in Brandenburg. In 1825 he became extraordinary pro fessor at Berlin, and in 1829 went to Halle, where he became chief librarian of the university in 1844.
The most important of Bernhardy's works were his histories (or sketches) of Greek and Roman literature: Grundriss der romischen Literatur (5th ed., 1872) ; Grundriss der. griechischen Literatur (pt. i., Introduction and General View, 1836 ; pt. ii., Greek Poetry, pt. iii., Greek Prose Literature, was never published). A fifth edition of pts. i. and ii., by R. Volkmann, began in 1892. Other works by Bernhardy are: Eratosthenica (1822) ; Wissenschaftliche Syntax der griechischen Sprache (1829, suppts. 1854, 1862) ; Grundlinien zur Encyklopadie der Philologie (1832) ; the monumental edition of the Lexicon of Suidas ; and an edition of F. A. Wolf's Kleine Schriften (1869) . See Volkmann, G. Bernhardy (1887) .