Richard François Philippe Brunck
Richard François Philippe Brunck , born with Strasbourg the December 30th 1729 and dead the June 12th 1803, is a French hellenist and translator.
It makes its studies with the college of the Jesuits to Paris and becomes police chief of the wars during the Guerre Seven Year old. Of return to Strasbourg at the thirty years age, it resumes its studies and cultivates in particular the Greek . Between 1772 and 1776, it publishes an edition of the Greek Anthologie ( Analecta veterum Poetarum Graecorum ) which astonishes by boldness with which it makes modifications to the original text each time a passage appears obscure to him or erroneous. It publishes Latin authors: Virgile, Cicéron, Plaute, Terence, as well as many Greek authors: Eschyle, Sophocle, Euripide, Aristophane, Longus, Anacréon, Méléagre de Gadara, Apollonios of Rhodos, Bion de Phlossa, Théognis de Mégare. It translates also Aristophane and Sophocle into Latin. This last translation is worth a pension of the king to him.
It takes an active part in the Révolution, which is worth to him to be imprisoned during some time with Besancon and to lose its pension. This one is restored to him only in 1802, whereas it was obliged to sell the major part of its library.
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