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BOISSONADE DE FONTARABIE, See also:

JEAN

JEAN See also:
FRANCOIS (1558-1614)
FRANCOIS (1774-1857) , See also:

French classical See also:

SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Paris on the 12th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1774. In 1792 he entered the public service during the See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration of See also:

General See also:

DUMOURIEZ, CHARLES FRANCOIS (1739—1823)

Dumouriez. Driven from it in 1795, he was restored by Lucien See also:

BONAPARTE

Bonaparte, during whose See also:

time of See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office he served as secretary to the prefecture of the Upper See also:

MARNE

Marne. He then definitely resigned public employment and devoted him-self to the study of See also:

Greek. In 1809 he was appointed See also:

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of Greek at the See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of letters at Paris, and titular professor in 1813 on the See also:

DEATH

death of P. H. See also:

LARCHER, PIERRE HENRI (1726-1812)

Larcher. In 1828 he succeeded J. B. See also:

GAIL, JEAN BAPTISTE (1755-1829)

Gail in the See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of Greek at the See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College de See also:

France. He also held the offices of librarian of the Bibliotheque du Roi, and of perpetual secretary of the Academie See also:

DES

des See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

Inscriptions. He died on the 8th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1857.

Boissonade chiefly devoted his See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to later Greek literature: See also:

PHILOSTRATUS

Philostratus, Heroica (1806) and Epistolae (1842); See also:

MARINUS

Marinus, Vita procli (1814); Tiberius Rhetor, De Figuris (1815) ; Nicetas Eugenianus, Drosilla et Charicles (1819); Herodian, Partitiones (1819); See also:

ARISTAENETUS

Aristaenetus, Epistolae (1822); See also:

EUNAPIUS

Eunapius, Vitae Sophistarum (1822); See also:

BABRIUS

Babrius, Fables (1844); See also:

TZETZES, JOHN

Tzetzes, Allegoriae Iliados (1851); and a Collection of Greek Poets in 24 vols. The Anecdota Graeca (1829–1833) and Anecdota Nova (1844) are important for See also:

BYZANTINE

Byzantine See also:

HISTORY

history and the Greek grammarians. A selection of his papers was published by F. Colincamp, Critique litteraire sous le premier See also:

EMPIRE

Empire (1863), vol. i. of which contains a See also:

COMPLETE

complete See also:

list of his See also:

WORKS

works, and a " See also:

NOTICE

Notice Historique sur See also:

MONSIEUR (Fr., formed from men, my, and sieur, lord)

Monsieur B.," by Naudet.

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