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HENRY WILLIAM CHANDLER (1828-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 838 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:WILLIAM See also:CHANDLER (1828-1889)  , See also:English See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:London on the 31st of See also:January 1828 . In 1848 he entered See also:Pembroke See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he was elected See also:fellow in 1853 . In 1867 he succeeded H . L . See also:Mansel as See also:Waynflete See also:professor of moral and metaphysical See also:philosophy, and in 1884 was appointed See also:curator of the Bodleian library . He died by his own See also:hand in Oxford on the 16th of May 1889 . . He was chiefly known as an Aristotelian scholar, and his knowledge of the See also:Greek commentators on See also:Aristotle was profound . He collected a vast amount of material for an edition of the fragments of his favourite author, but on the See also:appearance of See also:Valentine See also:Rose's See also:work in 1886 he abandoned the See also:idea . Two See also:works on the bibliography of Aristotle, A See also:Catalogue of See also:Editions of Aristotle's Nicomachean See also:Ethics and of Works illustrative of them printed in the 25th See also:century (1868), and A See also:Chronological See also:Index to Editions of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and of Works illustrative of them from the Origin of See also:Printing to 1799 (1878), are of See also:great value . See also:Chandler's collection of works on Aristotelian literature is now in the library of Pembroke College . His See also:Practical Introduction to Greek Accentuation (1862, ed. See also:min . 1877) is the See also:standard work in English .

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