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CARL BENEDICT HASE (1780-1864)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENEDICT See also:HASE (1780-1864)  , See also:French Hellenist, of See also:German extraction, was See also:born at Sulza near See also:Naumburg on the 11th of May 1780 . Having studied at See also:Jena and See also:Helmstedt, in 18o1 he made his way on See also:foot to See also:Paris, where he was commissioned by the See also:comte de See also:Choiseul-See also:Gouffier, See also:late See also:ambassador to See also:Constantinople, to edit the See also:works of Johannes See also:Lydus from a MS. given to Choiseul by See also:Prince Mourousi . See also:Hase thereupon decided to devote himself to See also:Byzantine See also:history and literature, on which he became the acknowledged authority . In 1805 he obtained an See also:appointment in the See also:MSS. See also:department of the royal library; in 1816 became See also:professor of See also:palaeography and See also:modern See also:Greek at the Ecole Royale, and in 1852 professor of See also:comparative See also:grammar in the university . In 1812 he was selected to superintend the studies of See also:Louis See also:Napoleon (afterwards Napoleon III.) and his See also:brother . He died on the 21st of See also:March 1864 . His most important works are the See also:editions of See also:Leo Diaconus and other Byzantine writers (1819), and of Johannes Lydus, De ostentis (1823), a masterpiece of textual restoration, the difficulties of which were aggravated by the fact that the MS. had for a See also:long See also:time been stowed away in a See also:wine-See also:barrel in a monastery . He also edited See also:part of the Greek authors in the collection of the Historians of the See also:Crusades and contributed many additions (from the fathers, medical and technical writers, scholiasts and other See also:sources) to the new edition of Stephanus's See also:Thesaurus . See J . D . Guigniaut, See also:Notice historique sur la See also:vie et See also:les travaux de Carl See also:Benedict Hase (Paris, 1867) ; articles in Nouvelle Biographie generale and Allgemeine deutsche Biographie; and a collection of autobiographical letters, Briefe von der Wanderung and aus Paris, edited by O . See also:Heine (1894), containing a vivid See also:account of Hase's See also:journey, his enthusiastic impressions of Paris and the hardships of his See also:early See also:life .

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