Cobet, Carel Gabriel
, one of the most acute of modern text-critics and a Hellenist of great learning, was born
at Paris, November 28th, 1813. He studied at The Hague and at the University of Leyden
(1831-40), and showed so much ability as a philologist and student of classical
antiquity that in 1840 the Dutch government sent him to Italy to pursue certain
archæological investigations. In 1844 he was admitted to the doctorate at Leyden,
and in 1846 became professor. He died October 26th, 1889. His publications are numerous and of
great value, especially in the line of textual criticism, for which he showed great
originality, sagacity, and insight. They are as follows:
Observationes Criticae
in Platonis Comici Reliquias (Amsterdam, 1840);
Oratio de Arte
Interpretandi Grammatices et Critices—his inaugural
address—
(1847);
Praefatio Lectionum de Historia
Vetere (1853);
Variae Lectiones quibus Continentur Observationes
Criticae in Scriptores Graecos (1854; 2d ed. 1873); an edition of Hyperides
(1858); of Lysias
(Amsterdam, 1863); of
Xenophon's
Hellenica (1862); of Diogenes Laertius, in the Didot collection
(Paris, 1850; 2d ed. 1862);
Miscellanea Philologica et
Critica (1873);
Miscellanea Critica (1876);
Observationes Criticae in Dionysii Halicarnassensis Antiquitates
Romanas (1877); and
Collectanea Critica (1878). He
also edited for many years the philological journal
Mnemosyne (Bibliotheca
Philologica Batava), published at Leyden. See Hartmann, in the
Bibliogr.
Jahrbuch, xii. pp. 53 foll.
(Berlin, 1889); id.
De Carolo
Gabriele Cobet (Berlin, 1890).
