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GEEL, JACOB (1789-1862)

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GEEL, See also:JACOB (1789-1862) , Dutch See also:scholar and critic, was See also:born at See also:Amsterdam on the 12th of See also:November 1789. In 1823 he was appointed sub-librarian, and in 1833 See also:chief librarian and honorary See also:professor at See also:Leiden, where he died on the 11th of November 1862. Geel materially contributed to the development of classical studies in See also:Holland. He was the author of See also:editions of See also:Theocritus (1820), of the Vatican fragments of See also:Polybius (1829), of the 'OM rtarzos of Dio See also:Chrysostom (1840) and of numerous essays in the Rheinisches Museum and Bibliotheca critica nova, of which he was one of the founders. He also compiled a valuable See also:catalogue of the See also:MSS. in the Leiden library, wrote a See also:history of the See also:Greek See also:sophists, and translated various See also:German See also:works into Dutch.

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