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There are three general histories of classical scholarship in English, all now out-of-date, but still very useful:

• A history of classical scholarship from the sixth century B.C. to the present day / by John Edwin Sandys. (Cambridge University Press, 1903-1908. 3 Vols.
• History of classical scholarship / U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982). Translation, with helpful notes by Hugh Lloyd-Jones of Wilamowit'z Geschichte der Philologie (Teubner, 1921).
• History of classical scholarship from the beginnings to the end of the Hellenistic age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968) and History of classical scholarship from 1300 to 1850 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976) by Rudolph Pfeiffer.

See L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wilson's Scribes and scholars : a guide to the transmission of Greek and Latin literature 3rd edition (Oxford University Press, 1991)
H. Hunger, Geschichte der Textüberlieferung der antiken und mittelalterlichen Literatur (Zurich: Atlantis, 1961-1964)2 vols. Z110 T7 G4

History of Textual Criticism

• The Classical text : aspects of editing in the age of the printed book / E. J. Kenney (University of California Press, 1974) Olin Stacks P45 K45 1974.
  
• The genesis of Lachmann's method / Sebastiano Timpanaro ; edited and translated by Glenn W. Most (University of Chicago Press, 2005). Olin Stacks PD64.L3 T5613 2005
• Storia della tradizione e critica del testo / Giorgio Pasquali. 2nd ed. (Florence : F. Le Monnier, 1962) Olin Stacks PA47 P3 1962

The history of classical scholarship has often focused on the lives and individual achievements of prominient classicists.

• Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian humanists and of the world of classical scholarship in Italy, 1300-1800 / Mario Emilio Cosenza (G. K. Hall, 1962–1967) 6 Vols. Olin Stacks Oversize Z2352 C68 1962 4o
• Biographical dictionary of North American classicists / edited by Ward W. Briggs, Jr. (Greenwood, 1994) Olin Stacks PA83 .B53 1994
  
• Classical scholarship : a biographical encyclopedia / edited by Ward W. Briggs & William M. Calder III (Garland, 1990). Olin Stacks PA83 C58 1990
• The makers of classical archaeology : a reference work / Linda M. Medwid (Humanity Books, 2000) Olin Stacks DE9 A1 M43 2000.
• Nomenclator philologorum / Friedrick August Eckstein (Teubner, 1871 rpt. 1966) Olin Stacks Z7001 E35 1966
• Philologisches Schriftsteller-Lexikon / Wilhelm Pökel (Krüger, 1882) Olin Stacks Z7001 P74

Classical periodicals will often contain obituaries of prominient recently deceased classicists. They were a regular feature of "Bursian's" Jahresberichte über die Fortschritte der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (1873–1956), and continue in Gnomon.(1925–). Additional material can be found in L'Année indexed by under the subject heading X.Festschriften and Proceedings D. Personalia (beginning with volume 67), before that under X.Festschriften and Proceedings: Necrology.

The major national biographies can be excellent sources for biographies of, in most cases dead, classicists.

• United Kingdom: Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) Available online
  
• United States: American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2000) Available online
• Belgium: Biographie nationale. (Brussells: Buggenhoudt 1866–1986) 44 v. West Campus Storage
• France: Dictionnaire de biographie française (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1933–2001) 19 vols. Olin Stacks CT143 D5
• Germany: www.deutsche-biographie.de Online version of both the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie [ADB] (Berlin: Duncker & Humboldt, 1875–1912) 56 vols. and Neue deutsche Biographie  [NDB] (Berlin: Duncker & Humboldt, 1953–)
  
• Italy: Dizionario biografico degli Italiani (Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1960–) 44 cols. (to M) Olin Stacks DG463 .D5
• Netherlands: Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek (Leiden: Sijthoff, 1911–1937) 10 vols. Olin Stacks CT1143 .M

See also the Biography and genealogy master index (Gale) database which indexes a wide range of biographical publications.

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