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PETER PAUL DOBREE (1782-1825)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 351 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETER See also:PAUL See also:DOBREE (1782-1825)  , See also:English classical See also:scholar and critic, was See also:born in See also:Guernsey . He was educated at See also:Reading school under See also:Richard See also:Valpy and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he was elected See also:fellow . He was appointed regius See also:professor of See also:Greek in 1823, and died in Cambridge on the 24th of See also:September 1825 . He was an intimate friend of See also:Porson, whom he took as his See also:model in textual See also:criticism, although he showed less caution in conjectural emendation . After Porson's See also:death • (18o8) See also:Dobree was commissioned with See also:Monk and See also:Blomfield to edit his See also:literary remains, which had been bequeathed to Trinity College . Illness and a subsequent See also:journey to See also:Spain delayed the See also:work until 18.20, when Dobree brought out the See also:Plutus of See also:Aristophanes (with his own and Porson's notes) and all Porson's Aristophanica . Two years later he published the See also:Lexicon of See also:Photius from Porson's transcript of the See also:Gale MS. in Trinity College library, to which he appended -a Lexicon rhetoricum from the margin of a Cambridge MS. of See also:Harpocration . JamesScholefield, his successor in the Greek professorship, brought out selections from his notes (Adversaria, 1831-1883) on Greek and Latin authors (especially the orators), and a reprint of the Lexicon rhetoricum, together with notes on See also:inscriptions (1834-1835) . The latest edition of the Adversaria is by See also:William See also:Wagner (in See also:Bohn'sCollegiate See also:Series, 1883) . An appreciative estimate of Dobree as a scholar will be found in J . See also:Bake's Scholica hypomnemata, ii . (1839) and in the Philological Museum, i .

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