Jan Bake (
September 1,
1787]-
March 26,
1864) was a
Dutch philologist and critic. He was born at
Leiden, and from
1817 to
1854 he was professor of
Greek and
Roman literature[?] at the university.
His principal works are:-
- Posidonii Rhodii Reliquiae Doctrinae (1810)
- Cleomedis Circularis Doctrina de Sublimitate (1820)
- Bibliotheca Critica Nova (1825-1831)
- Scholica Hypomnemata (1837-1862), a collection of essays dealing mainly with Cicero and the Attic orators
- Cicero, De Legibus (1842)
- De Oratore (1863)
- the Rhetorica of Apsines[?] Longinus (1849).
His biography was written (in Dutch) by his pupil Bakhuizen van der Brink[?] (1865); for an appreciation of his services to classical literature see L Müller, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in den Nederlanden (1869).