page_title: Lambert Bos
hierarchical_section_title: Lambert Bos
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Portret in olieverf van van Lambertus Bos, professor Grieks aan de Franeker universiteit van 1704 tot 1717. Bos is afgebeeld in een toga met een bef en hij heeft halflang donkergrijs haar. Het portret is geschilderd in een beigebruin ovaal. Lambertus Bos (Workum 23 november 1670 - Franeker 6 januari 1717) had al een bloeiende loopbaan als huisonderwijzer toen hij -als wat oudere student- talen ging studeren in Franeker. In 1704 kon hij Nicolaas Blancardus opvolgen als hoogleraar Grieks. (tekst Museum Martena)
context_page_description: Lambert Bos was a Dutch scholar, critic and forerunner of Tiberius Hemsterhuis.
  Lambert Bos was born at Workum in Friesland, where his father, Jakob Bos, was headmaster of the school. His mother was Gerarda de Haan. He was baptised in the reformed church in Workum on 25 November 1670. He went to the University of Franeker, and was appointed lector in 1697 and professor of Greek in 1704. On 28 February 1712 he married Feiktje Doeckes Sineda, the widow of the priest Gerradus Horreus, and earlier the widow of Dominic Camper. after an uneventful life he died at Franeker in 1717.
  His most famous work, Ellipses Graecae, was translated into English by John Seager; and his Antiquitates Graecae passed through several editions. He also published Vetus Testamentum, Ex Versione lxx. Interpretum; notes on Thomas Magister; Exercitationes Philologicae ad loca nonnulla Novi Foederis; Animadversiones ad Scriptores quosdam Graecos; and two small treatises on Accents and Greek Syntax.
context_section_description: Lambert Bos (23 October 1670 – 6 January 1717) (or Lambertus Bos or Lammert Bos) was a Dutch scholar, critic and forerunner of Tiberius Hemsterhuis.
  Lambert Bos was born at Workum in Friesland, where his father, Jakob Bos, was headmaster of the school. His mother was Gerarda de Haan. He was baptised in the reformed church in Workum on 25 November 1670. He went to the University of Franeker (suppressed by Napoleon in 1811), and was appointed lector in 1697 and professor of Greek in 1704. On 28 February 1712 he married Feiktje Doeckes Sineda, the widow of the priest Gerradus Horreus, and earlier the widow of Dominic Camper. after an uneventful life he died at Franeker in 1717.
  His most famous work, Ellipses Graecae (1702), was translated into English by John Seager (1830); and his Antiquitates Graecae (1714) passed through several editions. He also published Vetus Testamentum, Ex Versione lxx. Interpretum (1709); notes on Thomas Magister (1698); Exercitationes Philologicae ad loca nonnulla Novi Foederis (1700); Animadversiones ad Scriptores quosdam Graecos (1715); and two small treatises on Accents and Greek Syntax.
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