Claude Capperonnier French

France

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 classical scholar, the son of a tanner, was born at Montdidier

Montdidier

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. Though destitute of a learned education, he attained a considerable knowledge of the Latin and Greek, of which last language he became professor at Paris. He studied at Amiens

Amiens

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 and Paris

Paris

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, and took orders in the Church of Rome

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, but devoted himself almost entirely to classical studies. He declined a professorship in the University of Basle, and was afterwards appointed (1722) to the Greek

Greek language

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 chair in the Collège de France

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.
He published an edition of Quintilian

Quintilian

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 (1725) and left behind him at his death an edition of the ancient Latin Rhetoricians, which was published in 1756. He furnished much material for Robert Estienne

Robert Estienne

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's Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. He was also the author of an apology for Sophocles

Sophocles

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; and left many valuable manuscripts. He was succeeded in his professorship in 1716 by his nephew Jean Capperonnier

Jean Capperonnier

Jean Capperonnier was a French classical scholar.He succeeded his uncle Claude Capperonnier, also a distinguished scholar, as the Greek chair at the Collège de France. He published valuable editions of classical authors including Caesar, Anacreon, Plautus, and Sophocles...

, born also at Mondidier.

He published:

1. An edition of Joinville's History of St Lewis, folio.
2. An edition of Anacreon, 12mo.; Caesar, 2 vols.
3. Plautus, 3 vols.

His edition of Sophocles was printed at Paris in 1731, 2 vols.