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BRUNCK, See also:RICHARD See also:FRANCOIS PHILIPPE (1729-1803) , See also:French classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Strassburg on the 30th of See also:December 1729. He was educated at. the See also:Jesuits' See also:College at See also:Paris, and took See also:part in the Seven Years' See also:War as military See also:commissary. At the See also:age of See also:thirty he returned to his native See also:town and resumed his studies, paying See also:special See also:attention to See also:Greek. He spent considerable sums of See also:money in See also:publishing See also:editions of the Greek See also:classics. The first See also:work which he edited was the Anthologia Graeca or Analecta veterum Poetarum Graecorum (1772-1776), in which his innovations on the established mode of See also:criticism startled See also:European scholars; for wherever it seemed to him that an obscure or difficult passage might be made intelligible and easy by a See also:change of See also:text, he did not See also:scruple to make the necessary alterations, whether the new See also:reading were sup-ported by See also:manuscript authority or not. Other See also:works by him are:—Editions of See also:Anacreon (1778), several plays of the Greek tragedians, See also:Apollonius Rhodius (178o), See also:Aristophanes, with an excellent Latin See also:translation (1781-1783), Gnomici poetae Graeci (1784), See also:Sophocles (1786), with Latin translation, his best work, for which he received a See also:pension of 2000 francs from the See also:king. He also published editions of See also:Virgil (1785), See also:Plautus (1788) and See also:Terence (1797). At the outbreak of the French Revolution, in which he took an active part, he was imprisoned at See also:Besancon, and lost his pension, being reduced to such extremities that he was obliged to sell a portion of his library. In 1802 his pension was restored to him, but too See also:late to prevent the See also:sale of the See also:remainder of his books. He died on the 12th of See also:June 1803.

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