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ARNOLD DRAKENBORCH (1684-1748)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 474 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARNOLD DRAKENBORCH (1684-1748)  , Dutch classical scholar, was born at Utrecht on the 1st of
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January 1684 . Having studied
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philology under Graevius and Burmann the elder, and law under Cornelius
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Van Eck, in 1716 he succeeded Burmann in his professorship (conjointly with C . A . Duker), which he continued to hold till his
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death on the 16th of January 1748 . Although he obtained the degree of doctor of
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laws, and was intended for the legal profession, he determined to devote himself to philological studies . His edition of Livy (1738-1746, and subsequent
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editions) is the
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work on which his fame chiefly rests . The preface gives a particular account of all the
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literary men who have at different periods commented on the
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works of Livy . The edition itself is based on that of Gronovius; but Drakenborch made many important alterations on the authority of
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manuscripts which it is probable Gronovius had never seen . He also published Dissertatio de praefectis urbi (1704; reprinted at
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Frankfort in 1752 with a
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life of Drakenborch); Dissertatio de officio praefectorum praetorio (1707); and an edition of Silius Italicus (1717) .

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