Philippe Le Bas

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Philippe Le Bas (born June 18, 1794 in Paris ; † May 16, 1860 there ) was a French classical philologist .

His father, Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas (1764–1794), was a French revolutionary, a member of the National Convention and a supporter of Robespierre .

From 1820 to 1827 he worked as a tutor of the later Napoléon III. and managed to get him to attend the St. Anna humanistic grammar school in Augsburg from 1821 to 1823 .

From 1844 to 1860 he was director of the Sorbonne library . From 1838 he was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and in 1858 President of the Institut de France . In 1860 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1859 he was elected a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the previous academies. Philippe Le Bas. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on April 23, 2015 .
  2. ^ Markus Joseph Müller: Philippe Le Bas (obituary) . In: Meeting reports of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich . tape 2 , 1862, p. 167–169 ( online [PDF; accessed March 2, 2017]).

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