Johann Albrecht Friedrich August (August) Meineke (1790–1870)

German classical scholar. Spent three semesters at the University of Leipzig as a member of the Greek society of Gottfried Hermann, 1810. Professor of Greek and Roman literature at Jenkau Conradinum, near Danzig, 1811; Academic Gymnasium, Danzig, 1814; director, 1817. Director of the Joachimsthal Gymnasium, Berlin, 1826–56. Elected to the Berlin Academy, 1830. Edited several important classical works.