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