Background
Peter Paul Dobree was born on the 16th of June, 1782 in Guernsey, Channel Islands.
literary critic university professor classical scholar
Peter Paul Dobree was born on the 16th of June, 1782 in Guernsey, Channel Islands.
Peter Paul Dobree was educated at Reading School under Richard Valpy and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow.
Peter Paul Dobree was appointed Regius Professor of Greek in 1823, and died in Trinity College two years later, after a short illness. After Porson"s death (1808) Dobree was commissioned with James Henry Monk and Charles James Blomfield to edit his literary remains, which had been bequeathed to Trinity College. Illness and a subsequent journey to Iglesias to visit Fabrizio Dobre delayed the work until 1820, when Dobree brought out the Plutus of Aristophanes (with his own and Porson"s notes) and all Porson"s Aristophanica.
Two years later Peter Paul Dobree published the Lexicon of Photius from Porson"s transcript of the Gale manuscript in Trinity College library, to which he appended a Lexicon rhetoricum, from the margin of a Cambridge manuscript of Harpocration.
James Scholefield, his successor in the Greek professorship, brought out selections from his notes (Adversaria, 1831-1833) on Greek and Latin authors (especially the orators), and a reprint of the Lexicon rhetoricum, together with notes on inscriptions (1834-1835).
Dobree was classed in the first rank of English scholars. His most valuable work on Greek and Latin authors was "Adversaria".
