Peter Paul Dobree
Deceased Person
1782 – 1825
Who was Peter Paul Dobree?
Peter Paul Dobree, English classical scholar and critic, was born in Guernsey.
He was educated at Reading School under Richard Valpy and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow. He was appointed Regius Professor of Greek in 1823, and died in Cambridge two years later.
He was an intimate friend of Richard Porson, whom he took as his model in textual criticism, although he showed less caution in conjectural emendation. After Porson's death Dobree was commissioned with James Henry Monk and Charles James Blomfield to edit his literary remains, which had been bequeathed to Trinity College.
Illness and a subsequent journey to Iglesias to visit Fabrizio Dobre delayed the work until 1820, when Dobree brought out the Plutus of Aristophanes and all Porson's Aristophanica. Two years later he published the Lexicon of Photius from Porson's transcript of the Gale manuscript in Trinity College library, to which he appended a Lexicon rhetoricum, from the margin of a Cambridge manuscript of Harpocration.
James Scholefield, his successor in the Greek professorship, brought out selections from his notes on Greek and Latin authors, and a reprint of the Lexicon rhetoricum, together with notes on inscriptions.
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- Born
- Jun 26, 1782
Guernsey - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Reading School
- Lived in
- Guernsey
- Died
- Sep 24, 1825
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on July 23, 2013
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