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Henri Weil (
August 26,
1818,
Frankfort-on-the-Main -
December 17,
1868) was a
German-born
French Jewish philologist.
He was educated at the universities of
Bonn,
Berlin, and
Leipzig. He went to France, and continued his studies at Paris, graduating as "docteur ès lettres" in 1845, and becoming "agrégé" in 1848. Appointed professor of ancient literature at the
University of Besançon, he was in 1872 elected dean of the faculty. In 1876 he was called to Paris to fill a vacancy as instructor in the normal high school and to assume charge of the
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, both of which positions he resigned in 1891. In 1866 he was elected corresponding member of the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, becoming full member in 1882 as the successor of
Dulaurier. In 1887 he received the cross of the Legion of Honor.
Weil edited the poems of
Aeschylus, eight tragedies of
Euripides, and the orations of
Demosthenes. Among his works may be mentioned:
De l'Ordre des Mots dans les Langues Anciennes Comparées aux Langues Modernes (Paris, 1844; 3d ed. 1879);
De Tragædiarum Græcarum cum Rebus Publicis Conjunctione (with L. Beuloew, Paris and Berlin, 1845);
Théorie Générale de l'Accentuation Latine (ib. 1855); and
Etudes sur le Drame Antique (ib. 1897).
Bibliography
- Curinier, Dict. Nat. i. 142
- La Grande Encyclopédie
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