Lambert Bos

Lambert Bos (October 23, 1670 - January 6, 1717) was a Dutch scholar, critic and forerunner of Tiberius Hemsterhuis.

Lambert Bos was born at Workum in Friesland, where his father was headmaster of the school. He went to the University of Franeker (suppressed by Napoleon in 1811), and was appointed lector in 1697 and professor of Greek in 1704; after an uneventful life he died at Franeker in 1717.

His most famous work, "Ellipses Graecae" (1702), was translated into English by John Seager (1830); and his "Antiquitates Graecae" (1714) passed through several editions. He also published "Vetus Testamentum, Ex Versione lxx. Interpretum" (1709); notes on Thomas Magister (1698); "Exercitationes Philologicae ad loca nonnulla Novi Foederis" (1700); "Animadversiones ad Scriptores quosdam Graecos" (1715); and two small treatises on "Accents" and "Greek Syntax".

References

*1911

ources

* Gerritzen, J.G. (1940) Schola Hemsterhusiana. Nijmegen - Utrecht.
* Encyclopedie van Friesland (1953)
* Oosthoeks Geillustreerde Encyclopaedie (1917)