Lambert Bos (23 October 1670 – 6 January 1717) (orLambertus Bos orLammert Bos) was a Dutchscholar,critic and forerunner ofTiberius Hemsterhuis.
Lambert Bos was born atWorkum inFriesland, where his father, Jakob Bos, was headmaster of the school.[1] His mother was Gerarda de Haan.[2] He was baptised in the reformed church in Workum on 25 November 1670.[3] He went to theUniversity of Franeker (suppressed byNapoleon in 1811), and was appointed lector in 1697 and professor of Greek in 1704.[1] On 28 February 1712 he married Feiktje Doeckes Sineda, the widow of the priest Gerradus Horreus,[4] and earlier the widow of Dominic Camper.[2] after an uneventful life he died atFraneker in 1717.[1]
His most famous work,Ellipses Graecae[5] (1702), was translated into English byJohn Seager (1830); and hisAntiquitates Graecae (1714) passed through several editions. He also publishedVetus Testamentum, Ex Versione lxx. Interpretum[6] (1709); notes onThomas Magister (1698);Exercitationes Philologicae ad loca nonnulla Novi Foederis (1700);Animadversiones ad Scriptores quosdam Graecos (1715); and two small treatises onAccents andGreek Syntax.[1]
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