CAREL See also:

• GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, man of God)

GABRIEL See also:

• CAREL GABRIEL COBET (1813-1889)

COBET (1813-1889)  , Dutch classical See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 28th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1813, and educated at the See also:

• HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague Gymnasium and the university of See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden . In 1836 he won a See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal for an See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay entitled Prosopographia Xenophontea, a brilliant characterization of all the persons introduced into the Memorabilia, See also:

• SYMPOSIUM (Gr. avyr6cnov, a drinking party, from avµirivecv, to drink together, abv, with, and 7rivecv, to drink, root 7ro, cf. Lat. potare, to drink, poculum, cup)

Symposium and Oeconomicus of See also:

• XENOPHON

Xenophon . His Observationes criticae in Platonis comici reliquias (184o) revealed his remarkable See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty . The university conferred on him an honorary degree, and recommended him to the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government for a travelling See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension . The ostensible purpose of his See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey was to collate the texts of See also:

• SIMPLICIUS

Simplicius, which, however, engaged but little of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time . He contrived, however, to make a careful study of almost every See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript in the See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian See also:

• LIBRARIES

libraries, and returned after five years with an intimate knowledge of See also:

• PALAEOGRAPHY (Gr. aaXalbs, ancient, and ypal6ew, to write)

palaeography . In 1846 he married, and in the same See also:

• YEAR

year was appointed to an extraordinary professorship at Leiden . His inaugural address, De Arte interpretandi Grammatices et Critices Fundamentis innixa, has been called the most perfect piece of Latin See also:

• PROSE

prose written in the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . The See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his See also:

• LIFE

life was passed uneventfully at Leiden . In 1856 he became See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint editor of Mnemosyne, a philological See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

review, which he soon raised to a leading position among classical See also:

• JOURNALS

journals . He contributed to it many critical notes and emendations, which were afterwards collected in See also:

• BOOK

book See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form under the titles Novae Lectiones, Variae Lectiones and Miscellanea Critica . In 1875 he took a prominent See also:

• PART

part at the Leiden Tercentenary, and impressed all his hearers by his wonderful facility in Latin improvisation .

In 1884, when his See also:

• HEALTH

health was failing, he retired as See also:

• EMERITUS (Lat. from emereri, to serve out one's time, to earn thoroughly)

emeritus See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor . He died on the 26th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1889 . See also:

• COBET, CAREL GABRIEL (1813-1889)

Cobet's See also:

• SPECIAL

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 . He had little sympathy for the See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German critics, and maintained that the best See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination was See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good sense with See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste . He always expressed his See also:

• OBLIGATION

obligation to the English, saying that his masters were three See also:

• RICHARDS, ALFRED BATE (182o-1876)
• RICHARDS, HENRY BRINLEY (1819-1865)
• RICHARDS, WILLIAM TROST (1833-1905)

Richards—See also:

• BENTLEY, RICHARD (1662-1742)
• BENTLEY, RICHARD (1794-1871)

Bentley, See also:

• PORSON, RICHARD (1759-1808)

Porson and See also:

• DAWES, HENRY LAURENS (1816-1903)
• DAWES, RICHARD (1708-1766)

Dawes . See an appreciative obituary See also:

• NOTICE

notice by W . G . See also:

• RUTHERFORD, MARK
• RUTHERFORD, WILLIAM GUNION (1853–1907)

Rutherford in the Classical Review, Dec . 1889; Hartman in See also:

• BURSIAN, CONRAD (1830–1883)

Bursian's Biographisches Jahrbuch, 189o; See also:

• SANDYS, FREDERICK (1832-1904)
• SANDYS, GEORGE (1578-1644)
• SANDYS, SIR EDWIN (1561-1629)

Sandys, Hist . Class . Schol .

(1908), iii . 282 .