Anton Josef Kirchweger

Anton Kirchweger (died 1746) was the editor or the author of the very influential book Aurea Catena Homeri (Golden Chain of Homer). The book was read by Pietists and later influenced the young Goethe. It was first edited in Leipzig in 1723, in German language, followed by other editions: 1723, 1728, 1738 and 1757 (Latin edition). Another Latin version was issued at Frankfurt in 1762. Somewhere in the late eighteenth century Sigismund Bacstrom translated parts of the work into English. In 1891, part of the translation was published in the Theosophical Society Journal Lucifer.

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