About Jan Bake
Lived 1787 – 1864 (aged 76). Jan Bake was a German linguist, classical philologist, university teacher and jurist.
Jan Bake (1 September 1787 – 26 March 1864) was a Dutch philologist and critic. He was born in Leiden, and from 1817 to 1854 he was professor of Greek and Roman literature at the university.
His principal works are:- Posidonii Rhodii Reliquiae Doctrinae (1810) Cleomedis Circularis Doctrina de Sublimitate (1820) Bibliotheca Critica Nova (1825–1831) Scholica Hypomnemata (1837–1862), a collection of essays dealing mainly with Cicero and the Attic orators Cicero, De Legibus (1842) and De Oratore (1863) Apsinis et Longini Rhethorica (1849).
His biography was written (in Dutch) by his pupil Bakhuizen van der Brink (1865); for an appreciation of his services to classical literature see L Müller, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in den Nederlanden (1869).
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Dutch philologist
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Jan Bake was born on 1 September 1787 in Leiden.
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Jan Bake died on 26 March 1864 in Leiden.
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Jan Bake was a linguist, classical philologist, university teacher and jurist.
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