Jacob Geel

Jacob Geel (1789-1862), Dutch scholar and critic, was born at Amsterdam on the 12th of November 1789. In he was appointed sub-librarian, and in 1833 chief librarian and honorary professor at Leiden, where he died on the 11th of November 1862. Geel materially contributed to the development of classical studies in the Netherlands. He was the author of editions of Theocritus (1820), of the Vatican fragments of Polybius (1829), of the Omiutractatus of Dio Chrysostom (1840) and of numerous essays in the Rlzeinisches Museum and Bibliotheca critica nova, of which he was one of the founders. He also compiled a valuable catalogue of the manuscripts in the Leiden library, wrote a history of the Greek sophists, and translated various German works into Dutch.

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