CLAUDE

See also:

• CLAUDE CAPPERONNIER (1671-1744)

CAPPERONNIER (1671-1744)  , French classical scholar, the son of a tanner, was born at Montdidier on the 1st of May 1671 . He studied at Amiens and Paris, and took orders in the Church of Rome, but devoted himself almost entirely to classical studies . He declined a professorship in the university of Bale, and was afterwards appointed (1722) to the Greek chair in the College de France . He published an edition of Quintilian (1725) and left behind him at his death an edition of the ancient Latin Rhetoricians, which was published in 1756 . He furnished much material for Robert Estienne's Thesaurus Linguae Latinae . His nephew, Jean Capperonnier (1716-1775), his successor in the chair of Greek at the College de France, was also a distinguished scholar, and published valuable editions of classical authors—Caesar, Anacreon, Plautus, Sophocles .