- Carl Benedict Hase
Carl Benedict Hase (
May 11 ,1780 -March 21 ,1864 ), French Hellenist, of German extraction, was born atSulza nearNaumburg .Having studied at Jena and Helmstedt, in 1801 he made his way on foot to
Paris , where he was commissioned by thecomte de Choiseul-Gouffier , late ambassador toConstantinople , to edit the works ofJoannes Laurentius Lydus from a manuscript given to Choiseul byPrince Mourousi .Hase thereupon decided to devote himself to
Byzantine history and literature, on which he became the acknowledged authority. In 1805 he obtained an appointment in the manuscripts department of the royal library; in 1816 became professor ofpalaeography and modern Greek at theÉcole Royale , and in 1852 professor of comparative grammar in the university. In 1812 he was selected to superintend the studies of Louis Napoleon (afterwardsNapoleon III ) and his brother.His most important works are the editions of
Leo Diaconus and other Byzantine writers (1819), and of Johannes Lydus, "De ostentis" (1823), a masterpiece of textual restoration, the difficulties of which were aggravated by the fact that the manuscript had for a long time been stowed away in a wine-barrel in a monastery. He also edited part of the Greek authors in the collection of the "Historians of the Crusades" and contributed many additions (from the fathers, medical and technical writers,scholia sts and other sources) to the new edition ofStephanus Byzantinus 's "Thesaurus".See JD Guigniaut, "Notice historique sur la vie et les travaux de Carl Benedict Hase" (Paris, 1867); articles in "Nouvelle Biographie generale" and "Allgemeine deutsche Biographie"; and a collection of autobiographical letters, "Briefe von der Wanderung und aus Paris", edited by O Heine (1894), containing a vivid account of Hase's journey, his enthusiastic impressions of Paris and the hardships of his early life.
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