person
Raphael Kuhner
Kühner
also: Кюнер
Raphael Kühner, the real German classical philologist whose Latin and Greek grammars were standard textbooks in Russian gimnaziya education -- a groan-worthy in-joke for students forced to study them.
Reading notes
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §208 Kühner
Raphael Kühner, the German classical philologist whose Latin and Greek grammars were standard, dreaded textbooks in Russian gimnaziya education; the joke lands hardest for former students who suffered through them.
- The Tutor §7 Kühner
Raphael Kühner's Latin grammar was the standard, much-dreaded textbook of Russian gymnasium Latin instruction -- its battered condition here signals years of hard, unloved use.