Orelli

Orelli, KASPAR VON, scholar, was born at Zurich, 13th February 1787. Ordained in 1806, he next year became a Reformed preacher at Bergamo; in 1813 a teacher in the cantonal school at Coire; in 1819 professor at Zurich, and in 1833 professor of Classical Philology in the newly-founded university. He died at Zurich, 6th January 1849. Orelli edited many classical authors with great learning, taste, and acute discrimination, in particular Horace (1837-38), Tacitus (1846-47), and Cicero (1826-31). His Onomasticum Tullianum (1836-38) and Inscriptionum Latinarum Selectarum Collectio (1828) also deserve mention.