Background
Pierre Henri Larcher was born on the 12th of January, 1726 in Dijon, France.
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Pierre Henri Larcher
Pierre Henri Larcher was a French classical scholar and archaeologist.
Career
Pierre Henri Larcher's (anonymous) translation of Chariton's Chaereas and Callirrho'e (1763) marked him as an excellent Greek scholar. His attack upon Voltaire's Philosophic de I'historie (published under the паще of l'Abbe Bazin) created considerable interest at the time. His archaeological and mythological Memoire sur Venus (1775), which has been ranked with similar works of Heyne and Winckelmann, gained him admission to the Academie des Inscriptions (1778).
After the imperial university was founded, Pierre Henri Larcher was appointed professor of Greek literature (1809) with Boissonade as his assistant. Larcher's best work was his translation of Herodotus (1786, new ed.
by L. Humbert, 1880) on the preparation of which he had spent fifteen years. The translation itself, though correct, is dull, but the commentary (translated into English, London, 1829, new ed. 1844, by W. D. Cooley) dealing with historical, geographical and chronological questions, and enriched by a wealth of illustration from ancient and modern authors, is not without value.
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February 22, 1812 (aged 86) -
Nationality
France