David Ruhnkenius

David Ruhnken , in Latin David Ruhnkenius , (1723-1798) was a Philologue Dutch of German origin.

Born in Poméranie, he was assistant of Hemsterhuis to the Université of Leyde for the Greek Langue (1757-61), then professor of history and eloquence in the same university, and finally librarian of the Academy in 1771.

One has of him:

Epistolae criticae in Homeridarum hymnos , Leyde, 1749 and 1781;
Timaei sophistae lexicon vocum platonicarum , 1754, on Timée de Locres;
Historia critica oratorum graecorum , 1768;
Velleius Paterculus, cum notis variorum , 1779, an edition of works of Velleius Paterculus;
Homeri hymnus in Cererem , 1181;
of Vita and scriptis Longini , 1766, on the work of Longin;
Opuscula oratoria, philologica, critica , 1797 and 1823;
Antiquitates romanae , 1835.

Its pupil Daniel Albert Wyttenbach wrote his biography.

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