- Peter Elmsley
Peter Elmsley (1773-1825) was an English classical scholar.
He was educated at
Westminster andChrist Church, Oxford , and having inherited a fortune from his uncle, a well-known bookseller, devoted himself to the study of classical authors and manuscripts. In 1798 he was appointed to the chapelry of Little Horkesley inEssex , which he held until his death.He travelled extensively in
France andItaly , and spent the winter of 1818 in examining the manuscripts in theLaurentian Library atFlorence . In 1819 he was commissioned, withSir Humphry Davy , to decipher the papyri found atHerculaneum , but the results proved insignificant. In 1823 he was appointed principal ofSt. Alban's Hall ,Oxford , andCamden Professor of Ancient History . He died in Oxford on8 March 1825 .Elmsley was a man of most extensive learning and
Europe an reputation, and was considered to be the best ecclesiastical scholar in England. But it is chiefly by his collation of the manuscripts of the Greek tragedians and his critical labours on the restoration of their text that he will be remembered. He edited "The Acharnians " ofAristophanes , and several of the plays andscholia ofSophocles andEuripides . He was the first to recognize the importance of the Laurentian manuscript [see Sandy's "Hist. of Class. Schol." iii. (1908)]References
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