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Daniel Albert Wyttenbach (7 August 1746, Bern – 17 January 1820, Oegstgeest) was a German Swiss classical scholar. A student of Hemsterhuis, Valckenaer and Ruhnken, he was an exponent of the methods of criticism which they established, and with them he laid the foundations of modern
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See moreHe was born at Bern, of a noble family, and was extremely proud of his lineage, particularly his descent from Thomas Wyttenbach, professor of theology in Basel at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century, who had
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See moreWyttenbach reached Leiden in 1770. He spent a year learning the language of the people, attending the lectures of the great duumviri of Leiden, and collating manuscripts of Plutarch. At the end of 1771 a professor was wanted at Amsterdam for
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See more• Bickert, Hans Günther and Norbert Nail (2000). Daniel Jeanne Wyttenbach: Marburgs erste Ehrendoktorin (1827) (Schriften der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg, 98) Marburg.
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See moreAlthough his work is not on the same level as that of Hemsterhuis, Valckenaer and Ruhnken, he was a very eminent exponent of the sound methods of criticism which they established. These four men, more than any others after Richard Bentley, laid the foundations of modern
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