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JOHN ANTONY CRAMER (1793—1848)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 363 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN ANTONY See also:CRAMER (1793—1848)  , See also:English classical See also:scholar and geographer, was See also:born at Mitlodi in See also:Switzerland . He was educated at See also:Westminster and See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford . He resided in Oxford till 1844, during which See also:time he held many important offices, being public orator, See also:principal of New See also:Inn See also:Hall (which he rebuilt at his own expense), and See also:professor of See also:modern See also:history . In 1844 he was appointed to the deanery of See also:Carlisle, which he held until his See also:death at See also:Scarborough on the 24th of See also:August 1848 . His See also:works are of considerable importance: A Dissertation on the Passage of See also:Hannibal over the See also:Alps, published anonymously with H . L . Wickham (2nd ed., 1828), " a scholar-like See also:work of first-See also:rate ability "; See also:geographical and See also:historical descriptions of See also:Ancient See also:Italy (1826), Ancient See also:Greece (1828), See also:Asia See also:Minor (1832); Travels of See also:Nicander Nucius of Corcyra [See also:Greek traveller of the 16th See also:century] in See also:England (1841); Catenae Graecorum Patrum in Novum Testamentum (1838—1844) ; Anecdota Graeca (from the See also:MSS. of the royal library in See also:Paris, 1839—1841) .

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