Boissonade

Boissonade, JEAN FRANÇOIS, Hellenist, born at Paris in 1774, became in 1809 titular, and three years later actual professor of Greek in the university of Paris; in 1813 member of the Academy of Inscriptions; and in 1828 professor of Greek Literature in the College of France. His more important works are Philostrati Heroica (1806); Marini Vita Procli (1814), Tiberius Rhetor de Figuris (1815), Sylloge Poetarum Graecorum (1823-26), Babrii Fabula (1844). He died at Passy, 8th September 1859.