Carel Gabriel Cobet
Carel Gabriel Cobet (born November 28, 1813 in Paris , † October 26, 1889 in Leiden ) was a Dutch classical philologist .
Live and act
Cobet came from a Huguenot family. His father was Johannes Cobet and his mother was named Marie Bertrand. At the time of his birth, his father had worked for the War Department in Paris. After Napoleon's war, the parents returned to the Netherlands. Here he attended high school in The Hague and enrolled on May 7, 1832 as a theology student at the University of Leiden . In 1838 he switched to studying classical philology, where he found formative teachers in Jacob Geel (1789–1862) and John Bake . For his essay Prosopographia Xenophontea , in which he published a characteristic of the people from Xenophon's works, he received an award (gold medal) from the university.
His dissertation with the title Observationes criticae in Platonis comici reliquias was awarded the highest rating in 1840 and earned him a state travel grant. After he had received an honorary doctorate in philosophical sciences on November 7, 1840, he began a study trip. He used the five-year trip to study Greek manuscripts in France and Italy. After building a comprehensive foundation for future work, he returned to Leiden in 1845 as an expert in Greek palaeography . On October 18, 1845 he became a member of the institute and on February 23, 1855 he became a member of the successor organization of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences .
On January 21, 1846, he was appointed associate professor of speculative philosophy and literature, teaching Roman antiquities at the University of Leiden. He took on this task on June 20, 1846 with the inaugural speech de Arte interpretandi Grammatices et Critices fundamentis innixa primario philologi officio. On October 5, 1849, he became a full professor, with his teaching position expanded to include ancient history, the Greek language and literature. As a university lecturer in Leiden, he also took part in the organizational tasks of the educational institution and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1863/64 . On July 11, 1879, he was released from his teaching position in Roman antiquities and was given the training of Greek antiquities, which also included the subject of the history of Greek art.
In 1856 he became co-editor of the journal Mnemosyne , which under his leadership rose to become one of the most respected international journals in classical philology. He also published his contributions to text criticism separately from 1858. Due to his deteriorating health, he asked to be released from teaching in 1884. Therefore, on June 24, 1884, he retired by royal resolution and on September 16, 1884, he retired. Five years later, at the age of 75, he finally died and was quietly buried next to his wife in the Leiden cemetery in Groenesteeg.
In 1847 he married Jeannette Madeleine Naret Oliphant (around 1815 in Leiden; † July 5, 1865 in Leiden), who came from the Scottish family. The daughter Marie Louise Cobet (born June 6, 1849 in Leiden, † May 29, 1921 in The Hague) is known from the marriage, and on July 10, 1873 she met the later Lieutenant General, member of the States General, Knight of the Order of the Dutch Löwen Hendrik Pieter (Henri) Staal (born June 17, 1845 in Zwolle, † October 15, 1920 in The Hague) had married.
Cobet was one of the best experts on Greek manuscripts of his time and had a brilliant knowledge of Latin stylistics. His great confidence in dealing with the ancient texts led him to sometimes bold emendations; He didn't care much for the skeptical German research of his time.
Works (selection)
- Commentatio, qua continetur prosopographia Xenophontea. Leiden 1836, ( online )
- Observationes criticae in Platonis comici reliquias. Amsterdam 1840 ( online )
- Euripidis Phoenissae. 1846 ( online )
- Oratio de arte interpretandi grammatices et critices fundamentis innixa primario philologo officio, quam habuit Carolus Gabriel Cobet, ad 20 junii a. 1846. Leiden 1847
- Diogenis Laertii De clarorum philosophorum vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus libri decem. Paris 1850 ( online )
- Allocutio ad Commilitones qua lectiones de litteris Graecis et antiquitatibus Romanis in Academia Lugduno-Batava anno 1852-1853 have the d. XXI. M. Sept. 1852 auspicatus est CG Cobet. 1852 ( online )
- Praefatio lectionum de historia vetere. 1852
- Commentationes philologicae tres in Instituti Regii Belgici Classe tertià lectæ. Amsterdam, 1853 ( online )
- Commentatio de Sinceritate Graeci sermonis in Graecorum scriptis post Aristotelem graviter depravata. Amsterdam, 1853, ( online )
- Fragmenta (deperditarum orationum). 1854
- Protrepticus ad studia humanitatis .... 1854
- Adhortatio ad comilitones, qua lectiones de litteris graecis et de Antiquitatibus Romanis. Leiden, 1856 ( online )
- Hyperidis Oratio Funebris recens reperta. Leiden, 1858, 1877
- Orationes duae - Ho epitaphios logos et Huper Euxenippou. Leiden 1877
- De Philostrati libello peri gymnastikēs recens reperto. Leiden 1859 ( online )
- In memoriam Jani Gerardi Hulleman. 1862
- Miscellanea critica quibus continentur observationes criticae in scriptores graecos praesertim Homerum et Demosthenem. Leiden 1876
- Observationes criticae et palaeographicae ad Dionysii Halicarnassensis Antiquitates romanas. Leiden, 1877
literature
- PH Damsté: COBET (Carel Gabriël) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 3. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 242–244 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1914, reprinted unchanged).
- HJ Polak: CG Cobet. (Nov. 28, 1813-25 Oct. 1889). In: De Gids. PN van Kampen & zoon, Amsterdam 1889, vol. 53, pp. 401-435, ( online )
- Alfred Gudeman , Outline of the History of Classical Philology . Leipzig 1907, 2nd edition, p. 179
- Carel Gabriel Cobet. November 28, 1813 - October 25, 1889. In SA Naber: Four tijdgenooten - indrukken en beschouwingen. HD Tjeenk Willink, Haarlem, 1894, pp. 159-357
- R. Fruin, HW van der Mey: Brieven van Gobet aan Geel uit Parijs en Italië. EJ Brill, Leiden, 1891 ( online reading sample )
Web links
- Literature by and about Carel Gabriel Cobet in the catalog of the German National Library
- Record at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
- CG Cobet record at the Dutch Literature Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cobet, Carel Gabriel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cobet, CG |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 1889 |
| Place of death | Suffer |