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82: 25: 135:(1772–1776), in which his innovations on the established mode of criticism startled European scholars. As an editor, he made no commentaries, but occupied himself only with the text. Persuaded that all faults in the language of the Greek poets came from the carelessness of copyists, wherever it seemed to him that an obscure or difficult passage might be made intelligible and easy by a change of text, he did not scruple to make the necessary alterations, whether the new reading were supported by manuscript authority or not. 245: 228:
He also published a three-volume edition of Sophocles in 1788: Sophoclis tragoedias septem cum scholiis veteribus, versione Latina et notis. Accedunt deperditorum dramatum fragmenta. Ex editione Rich. Franc. Phil. Brunck, tom. I-III, Argentorati
212:, and lost his pension, being reduced to such extremes of penury that he was obliged to sell a portion of his library. In 1802 his pension was restored to him, but it came too late to prevent the sale of his remaining books. 260: 335: 139: 265: 330: 281: 320: 68: 46: 39: 315: 81: 120:
as military commissary. At the age of thirty he returned to Strasbourg to resume his studies, especially
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translation, a work for which he received a pension of 2,000
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Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel
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Strasbourg
Jesuits
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Anacreon
Apollonius Rhodius
Aristophanes
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Sophocles
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Virgil
Plautus
Terence
French Revolution
Besançon
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Brunck, Richard François Philippe
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