Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie
Deceased Person
1774 – 1857
Who was Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie?
Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie was a French classical scholar.
He was born at Paris. In 1792 he entered the public service during the administration of General Dumouriez. Driven out in 1795, he was restored by Lucien Bonaparte, 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 Greek. 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 Jean-Baptiste Gail in the chair of Greek at the Collège de France. He also held the offices of librarian of the Bibliothèque du Roi, and perpetual secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions. Boissonade is the father of Gustave Emile Boissonade.
Boissonade chiefly devoted his attention to later Greek literature:
Philostratus, Heroica and Epistolae
Marinus, Vita procli
Tiberius Rhetor, De Figuris
Nicetas Eugenianus, Drosilla et Charicles
Herodian, Partitiones
Aristaenetus, Epistolae
Eunapius, Vitae Sophistarum
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- Born
- Aug 12, 1774
- Also known as
- Jean Francois Boissonade de Fontarabie
- Children
- Died
- Sep 8, 1857
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on July 23, 2013
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