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KASPAR VON BARTH (1587-1658)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 447 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KASPAR VON

BARTH (1587-1658)  , German philologist, was born at Kiistrin in the province of
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Brandenburg on the 21st of
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June 1587 . He was an extremely precocious child, and was looked upon as a marvel of learning . After studying at
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Gotha,
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Eisenach,
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Wittenberg and
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Jena, he travelled extensively, visiting most of the countries of
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Europe . `Too
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independent to accept any
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regular
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post, he lived alternately at Halle and on his
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property at Sellerhausen near
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Leipzig . In 1636, his library and
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MSS. at Sellerhausen having been destroyed by fire, he removed to the Paulinum at Leipzig, where he died on the 17th of September 1658 . Barth was a very voluminous writer; his
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works, which were the fruits of extensive
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reading and a retentive memory, are unmethodical and uncritical and marred by want of taste and of clearness . He appears to have been excessively vain and of an unamiable disposition . Of his writings the most important are; Adversaria (1624), a storehouse of.
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miscellaneous learning, dealing not only with classical but also with
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medieval and
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modern writers; and commentaries on Claudian (1612, 1650) and Statius (1664) .

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