Jan Bake

Who was Jan Bake?

Jan Bake was a Dutch philologist and critic. He was born in Leiden, and from 1817 to 1854 he was professor of Greek and Roman literature at the university.

His principal works are:-

Posidonii Rhodii Reliquiae Doctrinae

Cleomedis Circularis Doctrina de Sublimitate

Bibliotheca Critica Nova

Scholica Hypomnemata, a collection of essays dealing mainly with Cicero and the Attic orators

Cicero, De Legibus and De Oratore

the Rhetorica of Apsines Longinus.

His biography was written by his pupil Bakhuizen van der Brink; for an appreciation of his services to classical literature see L Müller, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in den Nederlanden.