Jacob Geel

Jacob Geel (November 12, 1789 - November 11, 1862), was a Dutch scholar and critic.

He was born at Amsterdam. In 1823 he was appointed sub-librarian, and in 1833 chief librarian and honorary professor at Leiden, where he remained until his death. 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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*1911