Career
He was professor of ancient literature and universal history at Leiden from 1822 to 1849, when he resigned his post and retired to Hilversum, where he died on 28 March 1865. His ingenuity in this direction, in which he went much further than Bentley, was chiefly exercised on the Odes of Horace (the greater part of which he declared spurious), and the Aeneid of Virgil. He also edited the Ars poetica and Satires of Horace, the Agricola of Tacitus, the romance of Xenophon of Ephesus, and was the author of a history of the Latin poets of the Netherlands (De vita, doctrina, et facultate Nederlandorum qui carmina latina composuerunt, 1838).
See L Müller, Gesch. der klassischen Philologie in den Niederlandes (1869), and Journal of Economics Sandys, History. of Class.
School (1908), ii. 276.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, educated (1911). "article name needed".
Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed). Cambridge University Press.
