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PEERLKAMP, PETRUS HOFMAN (1786-1865)

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PEERLKAMP, PETRUS HOFMAN (1786-1865) , Dutch classical See also:scholar and critic, descended from a See also:family of See also:French refugees named Perlechamp, was See also:born at See also:Groningen on the 2nd of See also:February 1786. He was See also:professor of See also:ancient literature and universal See also:history at See also:Leiden from 1822 to 1849, when he resigned his See also:post and retired to See also:Hilversum near See also:Utrecht, where he died on the 27th of See also:March 1865. He was the founder of the subjective method of textual See also:criticism, which consisted in rejecting in a classical author whatever failed to come up to the See also:standard of what that author, in the critic's See also:opinion, ought to have written. His ingenuity in this direction, in which be went much farther than See also:Bentley, was chiefly exercised on the Odes of See also:Horace (the greater See also:part of which he declared See also:spurious), and the Aeneid of See also:Virgil. He also edited the Ars Pimlico and Satires of Horace, the See also:Agricola of See also:Tacitus, the See also:romance of See also:Xenophon of See also:Ephesus, and was the author of a history of the Latin poets of the See also:Netherlands (De vita, doctrina, 'et facultate Nederlandorum qui See also:carmine See also:latina See also:corn posuerunt, 1838). See L. See also:Muller, Gesch. der klassischen Philologie in den Niederlanden (1869), and J. E. See also:Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. (1908), iii. 276.

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