GOMPERZ

gomperz, theodor (1832- ), german philosopher and classical scholar, was born at brunn on the 29th of march 1832. he studied at brunn and at vienna under herman bonitz. graduating at vienna in 1867 he became _privatdozent_, and subsequently professor of classical philology (1873). in 1882 he was elected a member of the academy of science. he received the degree of doctor of philosophy _honoris causa_ from the university of konigsberg, and doctor of literature from the universities of dublin and cambridge, and became correspondent for several learned societies. his principal works are: _demosthenes der staatsmann_ (1864), _philodemi de ira liber_ (1864). _traumdeutung und zauberei_ (1866), _herkulanische studien_ (1865-1866), _beitrage zur kritik und erklarung griech. schriftsteller_ (7 vols., 1875-1900), _neue bruchstucke epikurs_ (1876), _die bruchstucke der griech. tragiker und cobets neueste kritische manier_ (1878), _herodoteische studien_ (1883), _ein bisher unbekanntes griech. schriftsystem_ (1884), _zu philodems buchern von der musik_ (1885), _uber den abschluss des herodoteischen geschichtswerkes_ (1886), _platonische aufsatze_ (3 vols., 1887-1905), _zu heraklits lehre und den uberresten seines werkes_ (1887), _zu aristoteles' poetik_ (2 parts, 1888-1896), _uber die charaktere theophrasts_ (1888), _nachlese zu den bruchstucken der griech. tragiker_ (1888), _die apologie der heilkunst_ (1890), _philodem und die asthetischen schriften der herculanischen bibliothek_ (1891), _die schrift vom staatswesen der athener_ (1891), _die jungst entdeckten uberreste einer den platonischen phadon enthaltenden papyrusrolle_ (1892), _aus der hekale des kallimachos_ (1893), _essays und erinnerungen_ (1905). he supervised a translation of j. s. mill's complete works (12 vols., leipzig, 1869-1880), and wrote a life (vienna, 1889) of mill. his _griechische denker_: _geschichte der antiken philosophie_ (vols. i. and ii., leipzig, 1893 and 1902) was translated into english by l. magnus (vol. i., 1901). gonaguas ("borderers"), descendants of a very old cross between the hottentots and the kaffirs, on the "ethnical divide" between the two races, apparently before the arrival of the whites in south africa. they have been always a despised race and regarded as outcasts by the bantu peoples. they were threatened with extermination during the kaffir wars, but were protected by the british. at present they live in settled communities under civil magistrates without any tribal organization, and in some districts could be scarcely distinguished from the other natives but for their broken hottentot-dutch-english speech.