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See also:PIERRE See also:HENRI See also:LARCHER (1726-1812) , See also:French classical See also:scholar and archaeologist, was See also:born at See also:Dijon on the 12th of See also:October 1726 . Originally intended for the See also:law, he abandoned it for the See also:classics . His (See also:anonymous) See also:translation of See also:Chariton's Chaereas and Callirriioe (1763) marked him as an excellent See also:Greek scholar . His attack upon See also:Voltaire's Philosophic de l'historie (published under the name of 1'See also:Abbe See also:Bazin) created considerable See also:interest at the See also:time . His archaeological and mythological Mentoire sur See also:Venus (1775), which has been ranked with similar See also:works of See also:Heyne and See also:Winckelmann, gained him See also:admission to the Academie See also:des See also:Inscriptions (1778) . After the imperial university was founded, he was appointed See also:professor of Greek literature (1809) with Boissonade as his assistant . He died on the 22nd of See also:December 1812 . See also:Larcher's best See also:work was his translation of See also:Herodotus (1786, new ed. by L . See also:Humbert, 188o) on the preparation of which he had spent fifteen years . The translation itself, though correct, is dull, but the commentary (translated into See also:English, See also:London, 1829, new ed . 1844, by W . D . Cooley) dealing with See also:historical, See also:geographical and See also:chronological questions, and enriched by a See also:wealth of See also:illustration from See also:ancient and See also:modern authors, is not without value . See J . F . Boissonade, See also:Notice sur in See also:vie et See also:les gaits de P . L . (1813); F . A . See also:Wolf, Literarische Analecten, i . 205; D . A . See also:Wyttenbach, Philomathia, iii . (1817) .
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