Arnold Drakenborch was a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 classical scholar.

Biography

Drakenborch was born at Utrecht

Utrecht (city)

Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...

. Having studied philology

Philology

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 under Graevius

Johann Georg Graevius

Johann Georg Graevius was a German classical scholar and critic. He was born at Naumburg....

 and Burmann the elder

Pieter Burmann the Elder

Pieter Burman , often called Burmann, and known as the Elder, to distinguish him from his nephew, was a Dutch classical scholar.-Life:...

, and law

Law

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 under Cornelius Van Eck, in 1716 he succeeded Burmann in his professorship (conjointly with CA Duker

Carl Andreas Duker

Carl Andreas Duker , German classical scholar and jurist, was born at Unna in Westphalia.He studied at the University of Franeker under Jacob Perizonius...

), which he continued to hold till his death. Although he obtained the degree of doctor of laws, and was intended for the legal profession, he decided to concentrate on philological studies.

His edition of Livy

Livy

Titus Livius — known as Livy in English — was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people. Ab Urbe Condita Libri, "Chapters from the Foundation of the City," covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome well before the traditional foundation in 753 BC...

 (1738–1746, and subsequent editions) is the work on which his fame chiefly rests. The preface gives a particular account of all the literary men, who have at different periods commented on the works of Livy. The edition itself is based on that of Gronovius

Johann Friedrich Gronovius

Johann Friedrich Gronovius was a German classical scholar and critic....

; but Drakenborch made many important alterations on the authority of manuscripts which it is probable Gronovius had never seen.

He also published Dissertatio de praefectis urbi (1704; reprinted at Frankfort in 1752 with a life of Drakenborch); Dissertatio de officio praefectorum praetorio (1707); and an edition of Silius Italicus

Silius Italicus

Silius Italicus, in full Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus , was a Roman consul, orator, and Latin epic poet of the 1st century CE,...

(1717).