Valckenaer

Valckenaer, LODEWYK KASPAR, an eminent Dutch philologist, born at Leeuwarden, June 7, 1715, studied at Franeker and Leyden, and in 1741 became professor of Greek at Franeker, in 1766 successor to Hemsterhuis at Leyden, where he died, March 14, 1785. His works included editions of the Greek grammarian Ammonius (1739), the Phænissæ (1755) and Hippolytus of Euripides (1768), the so-called Epistles of Phalaris (1777), Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus (1779-81), and posthumously the Fragmenta of Callimachus (1799).