Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie - Imagines philologorum

Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie (12 August 17748 September 1857) was a French classical scholar.

Life

He was born in Paris. In 1792 he entered the public service during the administration of General Dumouriez. Driven out in 1795, he was restored by

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, during whose time of office he served as secretary to the prefecture of the Upper Marne. He then resigned public employment permanently, in order to devote his time to the study of

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. In 1809 he was appointed deputy professor of Greek at the faculty of letters at Paris, and titular professor in 1813 on the death of

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. In 1828 he succeeded

Jean-Baptiste Gail Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755–1829) was a French Hellenist scholar, member of the Institut de France (French Institute). Early years Gail was born in Paris on July 4, 1755. In 1791 he was appointed deputy, and in 1792 titular professor at the Coll� ...

in the chair of Greek at the

Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ('' grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris n ...

. He also held the offices of librarian of the

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, and perpetual secretary of the

Académie des Inscriptions An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, ...

. Boissonade is the father of Gustave Emile Boissonade.

Works

Boissonade chiefly devoted his attention to later Greek literature: *

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, ''Heroica'' (1806) and ''Epistolae'' (1842) * Marinus, ''Vita procli'' (1814) * Tiberius Rhetor, ''De Figuris'' (1815) *

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, ''Drosilla et Charicles'' (1819) *

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, ''Partitiones'' (1819) *

Aristaenetus Aristaenetus ( el, Ἀρισταίνητος) was an ancient Greek epistolographer who flourished in the 5th or 6th century. Under his name, two books of love stories, in the form of letters, are extant; the subjects are borrowed from the eroti ...

, ''Epistolae'' (1822) *

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, ''Vitae Sophistarum'' (1822) *

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, ''Fables'' (1844) *

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, ''Allegoriae Iliadis'' (1851) *a ''Collection of Greek Poets'' in 24 vols. The ''Anecdota Graeca'' (1829–1833) and ''Anecdota Nova'' (1844) are important for

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history and the Greek grammarians. A selection of his papers was published by Ferdinand Colincamp, ''Critique littéraire sous le premier Empire'' (1863), vol. i of which contains a complete list of his works, and a "Notice Historique sur Monsieur B." by Joseph Naudet.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boissonade, Jean Francois 1774 births 1857 deaths Collège de France faculty French scholars French hellenists Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Burials at Montmartre Cemetery