Philipp Karl Buttmann was a German philologist of French Huguenot ancestry, born in Frankfurt am Main.
He was educated in his native town and at the University of Göttingen, where he was a student of Christian Gottlob Heyne. Wikipedia
Born: December 5, 1764, Frankfurt, Germany
Died: June 21, 1829 (age 64 years), Berlin, Germany
Children: Alexander Buttmann, Philipp Buttmann, and August Buttmann
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