HASE, CARL BENEDICT (1780-1864)

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HASE, CARL BENEDICT (1780-1864) , French Hellenist, of German extraction, was born at Sulza near Naumburg on the 11th of May 1780. Having studied at Jena and

Helmstedt

HELMSTEDT

, in 18o1 he made his way on foot to Paris, where he was commissioned by the comte de Choiseul-Gouffier,

late

LATE

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

Constantinople

CONSTANTINOPLE
CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

, to edit the works of Johannes Lydus from a MS. given to Choiseul by Prince Mourousi. Hase thereupon decided to devote himself to Byzantine history and literature, on which he became the acknowledged authority. In 1805 he obtained an appointment in the MSS. department of the royal library; in 1816 became professor of

palaeography

PALAEOGRAPHY (Gr. aaXalbs, ancient, and ypal6ew, to write)

and modern Greek at the Ecole Royale, and in 1852 professor of comparative grammar in the university. In 1812 he was selected to superintend the studies of Louis

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

(afterwards

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

III.) and his brother. He died on the 21st of

March

1864. His most important works are the editions of Leo Diaconus and other Byzantine writers (1819), and of Johannes Lydus, De ostentis (1823), a masterpiece of textual restoration, the difficulties of which were aggravated by the fact that the MS. had for a

long

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

time been stowed away in a wine-barrel in a monastery. He also edited part of the Greek authors in the collection of the Historians of the Crusades and contributed many additions (from the fathers, medical and technical writers, scholiasts and other sources) to the new edition of Stephanus's

Thesaurus

THESAURUS (Gr. B17o-avp6s)

.
See J. D. Guigniaut, Notice historique sur la vie et les travaux de Carl Benedict Hase (Paris, 1867) ; articles in Nouvelle Biographie generale and Allgemeine deutsche Biographie; and a collection of autobiographical letters, Briefe von der Wanderung and aus Paris, edited by O. Heine (1894), containing a vivid account of Hase's journey, his enthusiastic impressions of Paris and the hardships of his early life.

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