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 Pierre Henri Larcher. In 1828 he succeeded

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in the chair of Greek at the

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. He also held the offices of librarian of the Bibliothèque du Roi, and perpetual secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions. Boissonade was 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, ''Epistolae'' (1822) * Eunapius, ''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 Academic staff of the Collège de France French scholars French hellenists Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Burials at Montmartre Cemetery