Émile Egger
Émile Egger (
July 18,
1813 -
September 1,
1885),
French scholar, was born in
Paris.
From 1840 till 1855 he was assistant professor, and from 1855 till his death professor of Greek literature in the Faculté des Lettres at Paris University. In 1854 he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions and in 1873 of the Conseil supérieur de l'instruction publique.
He was a voluminous writer, a sound and discerning scholar, and his influence was largely responsible for the revival of the study of classical philology in France. His most important works were:
- Essai sur l'histoire de la critique chez les Grecs (1849)
- Notions élémentaires de grammaire compare (1852)
- Apollonius Dyscole, essai sur l'histoire des theories grammaticales dans l'antiquite (1854)
- Mémoires de litterature ancienne (1862)
- Mémoires d'histoire ancienne et de philologie (1863)
- Les Papyrus grecs du Muse du Louvre et de la Bibliothèque Imperiale (1865)
- Études sur les traits publics chez les Grecs et les Romains (1866)
- L'Hellénisme en France (1869)
- La Littérature grecque (1890).
He was also the author of
Observations et reflexions sur le developpement de intelligence et du langage chez les enfants (1879).
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