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BLOMFIELD, EDWARD VALENTINE (1788-1816)

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BLOMFIELD, See also:EDWARD See also:VALENTINE (1788-1816) , See also:English classical See also:scholar, See also:brother. of See also:Bishop C. J. Blomfield, was See also:born at See also:Bury St See also:Edmunds on the 14th of See also:February 1788. Going to See also:Caius See also:College, See also:Cambridge, he was thirteenth wrangler in 1811, obtained several of the classical prizes of the university, and became a See also:fellow and lecturer at See also:Emmanuel College. In 1813 he travelled in See also:Germany and made the acquaintance of some of the See also:great scholars of Germany. On his return, he published in the Museum Criticum (No. ii.) an interesting See also:paper on " The See also:Present See also:State of Classical Literature in Germany." Blomfield is chiefly known by his See also:translation of See also:Matthiae's See also:Greek See also:Grammar (1819), which was prepared for the See also:press by his brother. He died on the 9th of See also:October 1816, his See also:early See also:death depriving Cambridge of one who seemed destined to take a high See also:place amongst her most brilliant classical scholars. See " Memoir of Edward Valentine Blomfield," by Bishop See also:Monk, in Museum Criticum, No. vii.

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