Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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). This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.