CARL ANDREAS

DUKER (1670-1752)  , German classical scholar and jurist, was born at Unna in Westphalia . He studied at the university of Franeker under Jacob Perizonius . In 1700 he was appointed teacher of history and eloquence at the Herborn gymnasium, in 1704 vice-principal of the school at the Hague, and in 1716 he succeeded (with Drakenborch as colleague) to the professorship formerly held by Peter Burmann at Utrecht . After eighteen years' tenure he resigned his post, and lived in retirement at Ysselstein and Vianen . His health finally broke down under excessive study, and he died, almost blind, at the house of a relative in Meiderich near Duisburg, on the 5th of November 1752 . His chief classical works were editions of Florus (1722) and Thucydides (r731, considered his best) . He brought out the 2nd edition of Perizonius's Origines Babylonicae et Aegyptiacae (1736) and his commentary on Pomponius Mela (1736-1737) . Duker was also an authority on ancient law, and published Opuscula Darla de latinitate veterum jurisconsultorum (1711), and a revision of the Leges Atticae of S . Petit (1741) . See C . Saxe, Onomasticon litterarium, vi . 267; articles in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie and in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopadie .