Talk:Karl Wilhelm Dindorf

Ludwig Dindorf
The claim that Ludwig Dindorf "never held any academic position" needs a citation from a trustworthy source, as the German-language Wikipedia article on Dindorf states that he briefly held a professorship at Leipzig, before voluntarily abandoning his chair in order to concentrate on his philological research.

--J. C. Ransohoff (talk) 04:03, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

John Edwin Sandys
According to John Edwin Sandys: "Karl Wilhelm Dindorf ( 1802-1883 ), the eldest son of a professor of Hebrew at Leipzig, lost his father at the age of ten . Having thus been mainly left to his own resources , he acquired a singular independence of character and a habit of.."

- A History of Classical Scholarship: The eighteenth century,

Perhaps, the preview of a book dated back to 1967 isn't fully available yet.