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TIBERIUS HEMSTERHUIS (1685-1766)

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HEMSTERHUIS (1685-1766)  , Dutch philologist and critic, was See also:born on the 9th of See also:January 1685 at See also:Groningen in See also:Holland . His See also:father, a learned physician, gave him so See also:good an See also:early See also:education that, when he entered the university of his native See also:town in his fifteenth See also:year, he speedily proved himself to be the best student of See also:mathematics . After a year or two at Groningen, he was attracted to the university of See also:Leiden by the fame of See also:Perizonius; and while there he was entrusted with the See also:duty of arranging the See also:manuscripts in the library . Though he accepted an -See also:appointment as See also:professor of mathematics and See also:philosophy at See also:Amsterdam in his twentieth year, he had already directed his See also:attention to the study of the See also:ancient See also:languages . In 1706 he completed the edition of See also:Pollux's Onomasticon begun by Lederlin; but the praise he received from his countrymen was more than counterbalanced by two letters of See also:criticism from See also:Bentley, which mortified him so keenly that for two months he refused to open a See also:Greek See also:book . In 1717 See also:Hemsterhuis was appointed professor of Greek at See also:Franeker, but he did not enter on his duties there till 1720 . In 1738 he became professor of See also:national See also:history also . Two years afterwards he was called to See also:teach the same subjects at Leiden, where he died on the 7th of See also:April 17 66 . Hemsterhuis was the founder of a laborious and useful Dutch school of criticism, which had famous disciples in Valckenaer, See also:Lennep and Ruhnken . His See also:chief writings are the following: Luciani colloquia et See also:Timon (1708); Aristophanis See also:Plutus (1744); Notae, eec., ad Xenophontem Ephesium in the Miscellanea critica of Amsterdam, vols. iii. and iv . ; Observationes ad Chrysostomi homilias; Orationes (1784) ; a Latin See also:translation of the Birds of See also:Aristophanes, in Kiister's edition; notes to See also:Bernard's See also:Thomas Magister, to See also:Alberti's See also:Hesychius, to See also:Ernesti's See also:Callimachus and to See also:Burmann's See also:Propertius . See Elogium T .

Hemsterhusii (with Bentley's letters) by Ruhnken (1789), and Supplemcnta annotationis ad elogium T . Hemsterhusii, £sic . (Leiden, 1874); also J . E . See also:

Sandys' Hist . Class . Scholarship, ii . (1908) . HEM', See also:CHARLES See also:NAPIER (1841- ), See also:British painter, born at See also:Newcastle-on-See also:Tyne, was trained in the Newcastle school of See also:art, in the See also:Antwerp See also:academy and in the studio of See also:Baron See also:Leys . He has produced some figure subjects and landscapes, but is best known by his admirable marine paintings . He was elected an See also:associate of the Royal Academy in 1898, associate of the Royal Society of Painters in See also:Water See also:Colours in 1890 and member in 1897 . Two of his paintings, " Pilchards " (1897) and " See also:London See also:River " (1004), are in the National See also:Gallery of British Art .

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