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