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HUDSON, JOHN (1662–1719)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 850 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUDSON, See also:JOHN (1662–1719) , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at Wythop in See also:Cumberland. He was educated at See also:Oxford, where the See also:remainder of his See also:life was spent. In 1701 he was appointed See also:Bodley's librarian, and in 1711 See also:principal of St See also:Mary's See also:Hall. His See also:political views stood in the way of his preferment in the See also:church and university. He died on the 26th of See also:November 1719. As an editor and commentator he enjoyed a high reputation both at See also:home and abroad. His See also:works, chiefly See also:editions of classical authors, include the following: Velleius Paterculus (1693); See also:Thucydides (1696); Geographcae Veteris Scriptores Graeci minores (1698–1712) containing the works and fragments of 21 adthors and the learned, though diffuse, See also:dissertations of H. See also:Dodwell—a rare and valuable See also:work, which in spite of its faulty See also:text was not superseded until the See also:appearance of C. W. See also:Muller's edition in the See also:Didot See also:series: the editio princeps of See also:Moeris, De Vocibus Atticis et Hellenicis (1712); See also:Josephus (1720, published posthumously by his friend See also:Anthony Hall, the See also:antiquary), a correct and beautifully printed edition, with variorum notes and See also:translation. See See also:Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, iv.; introduction to the edition of Josephus; W. See also:Hutchinson, See also:History of Cumberland (1794).

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