About Henri Patin
Lived 1793 – 1876 (aged 82). Henri Patin was a French translator, hellenist, latinist and classical scholar.
Henri Joseph Guillaume Patin (21 August 1793, in Paris – 19 February 1876) was a French writer and translator of Ancient Greek and Latin.
Works Mélanges de littérature ancienne et moderne (1840) Études sur les tragiques grecs, ou Examen critique d'Eschyle, de Sophocle et d'Euripide, précédé d'une histoire générale de la tragédie grecque (1841–43) Œuvres d'Horace (1866). Text online Études sur la poésie latine (1868–69) Discours et mélanges littéraires (1876) Odes d'Horace (1883). Text online Poètes moralistes de la Grèce : Hésiode, Théognis de Mégare, Callinos, Tyrtée, Mimnerme, Solon, Sémonide d'Amorgos, Phocylide, Pythagore, Aristote (1892) Lucretius. De la Nature (1893)
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Who was Henri Patin?
French classical philologist and translator (1793-1876)
When was Henri Patin born?
Henri Patin was born on 21 August 1793 in rue de l'Ancienne-Comédie.
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Henri Patin died on 19 February 1876 in Palais de l'Institut de France.
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Henri Patin was a translator, hellenist, latinist and classical scholar.
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Henri Patin was French.
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