Jeremiah Markland

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Jeremiah Markland (October 18 (or 29) 1693 - July 7, 1776), English classical scholar, was born at Childwall in Liverpool on the 29th (or 18th) of October 1693. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He died at Milton, near Dorking.

[edit] Works

His most important works are

• Epistola critica (1723)
• the Sylvae of Statius (1728)
• notes to the editions of Lysias by Taylor, of Maximus of Tyre by Davies, of Euripides's Hippolytus by Musgrave
• editions of Euripides's Supplices, Iphigenia in Tauride and in Aulide (ed. T. Gaisford 1811)
• Remarks on the Epistles of Cicero to Bruins (1745).

[edit] References

• John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes (1812), iv. 272
• biography by Friedrich August Wolf, Literarische Analekten, ii. 370 (1818)
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.