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JAMES HENRY (1798-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 299 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES HENRY (1798-1876)  , Irish classical scholar, was born in
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Dublin on the 13th of December 1798 . He was educated at Trinity College, and until 1845 practised as a physician in the city . In spite of his unconventionality and unorthodox views on religion and his own profession, he was very successful . His accession to a large fortune enabled him to devote himself entirely to the absorbing occupation of his life—the study of Virgil . Accompanied by his wife and daughter, he visited all those parts of
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Europe where he was likely to find rare
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editions or
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MSS. of the poet . He died near Dublin on the 14th of
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July to be remembered, notwithstanding the occasional eccentricity of his notes and remarks . The first fruits of his researches were published at
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Dresden in 1853 under the quaint title Notes of a Twelve Years' Voyage of
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Discovery in the first six Books of the Eneis . These were embodied, with alterations and additions, in the Aeneidea, or Critical, Exegetical and Aesthetical Remarks on the Aeneis (1873–1892), of which only the notes on the first
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book were published during the author's lifetime . As a textual critic Henry was exceedingly conservative . His notes, written in a racy and interesting style, are especially valuable for their
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wealth of
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illustration and references to the less-known classical authors . Henry was also the author of several poems, some of them descriptive accounts of his travels, and of various
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pamphlets of a satirical nature . See obituary
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notice by J .

P .

Mahaffy in the Academy of the 12th of August 1876, where a list of his
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works, nearly all of which were privately printed, is given .

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