Jan Bake (1 September 1787 – 26 March 1864) was a Dutch

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and critic. He was born in

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, and from 1817 to 1854 he was professor of

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and

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at the university. His principal works are:- *''Posidonii Rhodii Reliquiae Doctrinae'' (1810) *''Cleomedis Circularis Doctrina de Sublimitate'' (1820) *''Bibliotheca Critica Nova'' (1825–1831) *''Scholica Hypomnemata'' (1837–1862), a collection of essays dealing mainly with

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and the Attic orators *''Cicero, De Legibus'' (1842) and ''De Oratore'' (1863) *'' Apsinis et Longini Rhethorica'' (1849). His biography was written (in Dutch) by his pupil Bakhuizen van der Brink (1865); for an appreciation of his services to classical literature see L Müller, ''Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in den Nederlanden'' (1869).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bake, Jan 1787 births 1864 deaths Dutch philologists Linguists from the Netherlands People from Leiden