Carl Andreas Duker (1670 – November 5, 1752) was a German classical scholar and

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Biography

He was born at Unna in

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, and studied at the

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under Jacob Perizonius. In 1700 he was appointed teacher of history and eloquence at the Herborn gymnasium, in 1704 vice-principal of the school at

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, and in 1716 he succeeded (with Drakenborch as colleague) to the professorship formerly held by Peter Burmann at Utrecht. After eighteen years' tenure he resigned his post, and lived in retirement at

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and

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. His health finally broke down under excessive study, and he died, almost blind, at the house of a relative in

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near

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, on 5 November 1752.

Works

His chief classical works were editions of Florus (1722) and

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(1731, considered his best). He brought out the 2nd edition of Perizonius's ''Origines Babylonicae et Aegyptiacae'' (1736) and his commentary on

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(1736–1737). Duker was also an authority on ancient

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, and published ''Opuscula varia de latinitate veterum jurisconsultorum'' (1711), and a revision of the ''Leges Atticae of S. Petit'' (1741).

Notes

References

* This work in turn cites: ** C. Saxe, ''Onomasticon litterarium'', vi. 267 ** ** Article in

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and Gruber's ''Allgemeine Encyklopädie'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Duker, Carl Andreas 1670 births 1752 deaths German classical scholars University of Franeker alumni Academic staff of Utrecht University 18th-century German people People from Unna