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Jan Bake
Jan Bake (September 1, 1787]- March 26, 1864) was a Dutch philologist and critic. He was born at 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 (1810)
- Cleomedis Circularis Doctrina de Sublimitate (1820)
- Bibliotheca Critica Nova (1825-1831)
- Scholica Hypomnemata (1837-1862), a collection of essays dealing mainly with Cicero and the Attic orators
- Cicero, De Legibus (1842)
- De Oratore (1863)
- the Rhetorica of Apsines[?] Longinus (1849).
His biography was written (in Dutch) by his pupil Bakhuizen van der Brink[?] (1865); for an appreciation of his services to classical literature see L Müller, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in den Nederlanden (1869).
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