This discovery soon led the German scholar Friedrich August Wolf to argue that the texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey that we possess had not been fixed in writing until relatively late.

NEWYORKER: Battle Lines

He read academic papers on free-market economics, and credits a summer program run by the Cato Institute, to which he has since given money, for immersing him in the writings of conservative icons such as Friedrich August Hayek and Ayn Rand.

NEWYORKER: State for Sale

In 1812, a German botanist named August Friedrich Schweigger studied tortoise specimens at the natural history museum in Paris.

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