Christian Gottlob Heyne dans l’histoire des études classiques

This paper deals with the contribution of the philologist Christian
Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812) in the following fields: 1. the diffusion of classical
studies by means of the academic speech ; 2. the interpretation of social and economic
facts of the ancient world, in particular slavery ; 3. the academic institutionalisation
of the study of antiquity and the development of considerable scientific
undertakings, such as the corpora ; 4. the development of ideas about the value
and the utility of the study of antiquity as well as the necessity of using a comparative method to understand it ; 5. the science of mythology ; 6. the study of ancient texts.
It stresses the decisive influence Heyne had on the following generation of classical
scholars.