Lambert Bos (23 October 1670 – 6 January 1717) (or Lambertus Bos or Lammert Bos) was a Dutch

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and forerunner of

Tiberius Hemsterhuis Tiberius Hemsterhuis (9 January 16857 April 1766) was a Dutch philologist and critic. Life He was born in Groningen. His father, a learned physician, gave him a good early education and he entered the university of his native city in his fifte ...

. Lambert Bos was born at

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, where his father, Jakob Bos, was headmaster of the school. His mother was Gerarda de Haan. He was baptised in the reformed church in Workum on 25 November 1670. He went to the

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(suppressed by

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in 1811), and was appointed lector in 1697 and professor of Greek in 1704. On 28 February 1712 he married Feiktje Doeckes Sineda, the widow of the priest Gerradus Horreus, and earlier the widow of Dominic Camper. after an uneventful life he died at

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in 1717. His most famous work, ''Ellipses Graecae'' (1702), was translated into English by

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(1830); and his ''Antiquitates Graecae'' (1714) passed through several editions. He also published ''Vetus Testamentum, Ex Versione lxx. Interpretum''v1
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v3
https://books.google.com/books?id=8OA2AAAAMAAJ v4] Google Books full content in Greek and Latin (1709); notes on

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(1698); ''Exercitationes Philologicae ad loca nonnulla Novi Foederis'' (1700); ''Animadversiones ad Scriptores quosdam Graecos'' (1715); and two small treatises on ''Accents'' and ''Greek Syntax''.

References

Sources

* Gerritzen, J. G. (1940) ''Schola Hemsterhusiana''. Nijmegen - Utrecht. * ''Encyclopedie van Friesland'' (1953) * ''Oosthoeks Geillustreerde Encyclopaedie'' (1917)

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* 1670 births 1717 deaths Linguists from the Netherlands People from Nijefurd University of Franeker alumni Academic staff of the University of Franeker {{Netherlands-linguist-stub