Hemsterhuis, TIBERIUS

Hemsterhuis, TIBERIUS, Dutch philologist, was born at Groningen, 1st February 1685. He became professor of Greek at Franeker in 1720, and of Greek history at Leyden in 1740, where he died 7th April 1766. One of the greatest Greek scholars of his time, Hemsterhuis may be said to have created a new school of Greek philology, to which belong his distinguished pupils Ruhnken and Valckenaer. His editions of the Onomasticon of Pollux (1706), of the Select Dialogues of Lucian (1708 and 1732), and of the Plutus of Aristophanes (1744, by Schäfer 1811) are his principal literary works. A beautiful picture of his life is given in Ruhnken's Eloquium Hemsterhusii (1768 and 1789), republished in Lindemann's Vite duumvirorum T. Hemsterhusii et D. Ruhnkenii (Leip. 1822). From Hemsterhuis's MSS. Anecdota Hemsterhusiana (1825) have been edited by Geel, and Orationes et Epistole (1839) by Friedemann.