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HENRY DRISLER (1818-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 585 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:DRISLER (1818-1897)  , See also:American classical See also:scholar, was See also:born on the 27th of See also:December 1818, on Staten See also:Island, New See also:York . He graduated at See also:Columbia See also:College in 1839, taught See also:classics in the Columbia See also:grammar school for four years, and was then appointed See also:tutor in classics in the college . In 1845 he became See also:adjunct See also:professor of Latin and See also:Greek there, in 1857 was appointed to the new See also:separate See also:chair of Latin See also:language and literature, and ten years later succeeded Dr See also:Charles See also:Anthon as See also:Jay professor of Greek language and literature . He was acting See also:president in 1867 and in 1888-1889, and from 1890 to his retirement as professor See also:emeritus in 1894 was See also:dean of the school of arts . He died in New York See also:City on the 3oth of See also:November 1897 . Dr See also:Drisler completed and supplemented Dr Anthon's labours as an editor of classical texts . His criticisms and corrections of See also:Liddell and See also:Scott's Greek-See also:English See also:Lexicon, of which he brought out a revised American edition in 1846, won his name a See also:place on the See also:title-See also:page of the See also:British edition in 1879, and in 187o he published a revised and enlarged edition of See also:Yonge's English-Greek Lexicon . He was ardently opposed to See also:slavery, and brilliantly refuted The See also:Bible View of Slavery, written by See also:Bishop J . H . See also:Hopkins of See also:Vermont, in a Reply (1863), which meets the bishop on purely Biblical ground and displays the wide range of Dr Drisler's scholarship .

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