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CAREL See also: scholar, was See also: born at See also: Paris on the 28th of See also: November 1813, and educated at the Hague Gymnasium and the university of See also: Leiden
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In 1836 he won a gold medal for an essay entitled Prosopographia Xenophontea, a brilliant characterization of all the persons introduced into the Memorabilia, Symposium and Oeconomicus of See also: Xenophon
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His Observationes criticae in Platonis comici reliquias (184o) revealed his remarkable critical faculty
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The university conferred on him an honorary degree, and recommended him to the See also: government for a travelling pension
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The ostensible purpose of his journey was to collate the texts of See also: Simplicius, which, however, engaged but little of his See also: time
.
He contrived, however, to make a careful study of almost every See also: Greek See also: manuscript in the See also: Italian See also: libraries, and returned after five years with an intimate knowledge of palaeography
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In 1846 he married, and in the same See also: year was appointed to an extraordinary professorship at Leiden
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His inaugural address, De Arte interpretandi Grammatices et Critices Fundamentis innixa, has been called the most perfect piece of Latin See also: prose written in the 19th century
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The rest of his See also: life was passed uneventfully at Leiden
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In 1856 he became joint editor of Mnemosyne, a philological review, which he soon raised to a leading position among classical See also: journals
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He contributed to it many critical notes and emendations, which were afterwards collected in See also: book See also: form under the titles Novae Lectiones, Variae Lectiones and Miscellanea Critica
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In 1875 he took a prominent See also: part at the Leiden Tercentenary, and impressed all his hearers by his wonderful facility in Latin improvisation
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In 1884, when his See also: health was failing, he retired as emeritus professor
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He died on the 26th of See also: October 1889
.
See also: Cobet's See also: special weapon as a critic
was his consummate knowledge of palaeography, but he was no less distinguished for his rare acumen and wide knowledge of classical literature
.
He has been blamed for rashness in the emendation.of difficult passages, and for neglecting the comments of other scholars
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He had little sympathy for the See also: German critics, and maintained that the best combination was See also: English See also: good sense with French taste
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He always expressed his See also: obligation to the English, saying that his masters were three Richards—Bentley, See also: Porson and Dawes
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See an appreciative obituary See also: notice by W
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G
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Rutherford in the Classical Review, Dec
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1889; Hartman in See also: Bursian's Biographisches Jahrbuch, 189o; Sandys, Hist
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Class
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Schol
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