Ponori Thewrewk Emil

* Bratislava, February 10, 1838 – † Budapest, February 24, 1917 / classical philologist, literary translator, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1884) ; ; Son of József Ponori Thewrewk, brother of Árpád Ponori Thewrewk and Aurél Török, father of the writer István Ponori Thewrewk (1863–?). He began his high school studies in Bratislava and finished them in Pest, at the Piarist high school. From 1857 he studied Hungarian, Greek and Latin languages, as well as comparative linguistics at university in Pest, Graz and Vienna. After obtaining his doctorate in humanities, he was a high school teacher in Buda, from 1874 he was an extraordinary professor of classical philology at the University of Budapest, and from 1877 to 1911 he was a public professor, and from 1899 to 1900 he was the rector of the university. In 1874 he founded the Philological Society, of which he became president. He edited the Society's journal, the Universal Philological Bulletin. He is a member of Kisfaludy (1885) and several foreign scientific societies. Together with Jenő Ábel (1858–1889), he is the founder of modern Hungarian classical philology. He also did significant work by publishing a collection of translations of Greek and Latin masterpieces. He also worked in musicology. He edited and provided an introduction to Archduke Joseph's Gypsy Grammar. ; ; His main works: ; Sound as Plastic, 1866; Roman and Greek Monetary Calculation, 1868; Linguistics as a Natural Science, 1869; The Optics of Language, 1870; The Principles of Correct Hungarian, 1873; The External History of Our University, 1900.