Jean-Baptiste Gail
Jean-Baptiste Gail , born with Paris the July 4th 1755 and deceased with Paris the February 5th 1829 is a French hellenist, member of the Institut, husband of Sophie Gail and father of Francisque Gail.
Assistant professor with the Collège de France in 1791, it is named titular in 1792. During the Revolution, he Miss not with the policy and only endeavors to keep his stations. In 1815, Louis XVIII names it preserving Greek manuscripts of the royal Bibliothèque, which causes the hostility of the conservatives in place, who had proposed another candidate. Long exchanges by interposed reviews followed, in particular with P. - L. Courier.
Jean-Baptiste Gail was a keen worker and one can allot the renewal of the Greek studies to him after the Revolution. It published editions of Xénophon and Théocrite (1828). He is also the author of school handbooks being based on the teaching methods of Port-Royal. He published the Philologist , collection of communications made with the class of old languages and history of the Institut of France from which he was member since 1809, and bearing on the Grammaire, the Géographie, the Archéologie and the Greek Littérature.
One can find a list of his writings in literary France of Quérard (1829).
This article appuye on Encyclopédia Britannica, edition 1911.
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