Friedrich August Ukert

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Friedrich August Ukert (28 October 1780 – 18 May 1851) was a German historian, teacher and humanitarian. He was born in Eutin, in the Bishopric of Lübeck. He studied philology from 1800 at the University of Halle with Friedrich August Wolf, and then at the University of Jena, where his teachers included Johann Heinrich Voss, Johann Jakob Griesbach and Christian Gottfried Schütz. After finishing his studies, he worked as a tutor in Danzig and then in Weimar, where he educated Friedrich Schiller's two sons. In 1808 he moved to Gotha and worked as an inspector at the Gymnasium Illustre. Soon after, he became a librarian at the ducal library, and he later served as chief librarian in Gotha. He helped Arnold Heeren establish the historical collection Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten (History of the States of Europe). The Moon crater Ukert is named after him.