Jan Bake

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Jan Bake (September 1, 1787 – March 26, 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)
the Rhetorica of Apsines Longinus (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).

References

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bake, Jan". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

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Name	Bake, Jan
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Short description	Dutch linguist
Date of birth	September 1, 1787
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Date of death	March 26, 1864
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