EGGER

egger, emile (1813-1885), french scholar, was born in paris on the 18th of july 1813. from 1840 till 1855 he was assistant professor, and from 1855 till his death professor of greek literature in the faculte; des lettres at paris university. in 1854 he was elected a member of the academie des inscriptions and in 1873 of the conseil superieur de l'instruction publique. he was a voluminous writer, a sound and discerning scholar, and his influence was largely responsible for the revival of the study of classical philology in france. his most important works were _essai sur l'histoire de la critique chez les grecs_ (1849), _notions elementaires de grammaire comparee_ (1852), _apollonius dyscole, essai sur l'histoire des theories grammalicales dans l'antiquite_ (1854), _memoires de litterature ancienne_ (1862), _memoires d'histoire ancienne et de philologie_ (1863), _les papyrus grecs du musee du louvre et de la biblioth&eque imperiale_ (1865), _etudes sur les traites publics chez les grecs et les romains_ (1866), _l'hellenisme en france_ (1869), _la litterature grecque_ (1890). he was also the author of _observations et reflexions sur le developpement de l'intelligence et du langage chez les enfants_ (1879). egger died in paris on the 1st of september 1885.