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See also:ELMSLEY, See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
PETER (1773—1825) , See also:English classical See also:scholar. He was educated at See also:Westminster and See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and having inherited a See also:fortune from his See also:uncle, a well-known bookseller, devoted himself to the study of classical authors and See also:manuscripts. In 1798 he was appointed to the chapelry of Little Horkesley in See also:Essex, which he held till his See also:death. He travelled extensively in See also:France and See also:Italy, and spent the See also:winter of 1818 in examining the See also:MSS. in the Laurentian library at See also:Florence. In 1819 he was commissioned, with See also:Sir See also:Humphry See also:Davy, to decipher the papyri found at See also:Herculaneum, but the results proved insignificant. In 1823 he was appointed See also:principal of St See also:Alban's See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, Oxford, and See also:Camden See also:professor of See also:ancient See also:history. He died in Oxford on the 8th of See also:March 1825. Elmsley was a See also:man of most extensive learning and See also:European reputation, and was considered to be the best ecclesiastical scholar in See also:England. But it is chiefly by his See also:collation of the MSS. of the See also:Greek tragedians and his See also:critical labours on the restoration of their See also:text that he will be remembered. He edited the Acharnians of See also:Aristophanes, and several of the plays and scholia of See also:Sophocles and See also:Euripides. He was the first to recognize the importance of the Laurentian MS. (see See also:Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. (1908).
End of Article: ELMSLEY, PETER (1773—1825)
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