EDWARD

See also:

• VALENTINE, or VALENTINUS

VALENTINE

See also:

• BLOMFIELD, CHARLES JAMES (1786-1857)
• EDWARD VALENTINE BLOMFIELD (1788-1816)
• BLOMFIELD, SIR ARTHUR WILLIAM (1829-1899)

BLOMFIELD (1788-1816)  , English classical scholar, brother. of Bishop C . J . Blomfield, was born at Bury St Edmunds on the 14th of February 1788 . Going to Caius College, Cambridge, he was thirteenth wrangler in 1811, obtained several of the classical prizes of the university, and became a fellow and lecturer at Emmanuel College . In 1813 he travelled in Germany and made the acquaintance of some of the great scholars of Germany . On his return, he published in the Museum Criticum (No. ii.) an interesting paper on " The Present State of Classical Literature in Germany." Blomfield is chiefly known by his translation of Matthiae's Greek Grammar (1819), which was prepared for the press by his brother . He died on the 9th of October 1816, his early death depriving Cambridge of one who seemed destined to take a high place amongst her most brilliant classical scholars . See " Memoir of Edward Valentine Blomfield," by Bishop Monk, in Museum Criticum, No. vii .