BAKE

bake, jan (1787-1864), dutch philologist and critic, was born at leiden on the 1st of september 1787, and from 1817 to 1854 he was professor of greek and roman literature at the university. he died on the 26th of march 1864. his principal works are:--_posidonii rhodii reliquiae doctrinae_ (1810); _cleomedis circularis doctrina de sublimitate_ (1820); _bibliotheca [v.03 p.0227] critica nova_ (1825-1831) and _scholica hypomnemata_ (1837-1862), a collection of essays dealing mainly with cicero and the attic orators; cicero, _de legibus_ (1842) and _de oratore_ (1863); the _rhetorica_ of apsines and 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. mueller, _geschichte der klassischen philologie in den niederlanden_ (1869).