Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameProfessor Henri WEIL 1200
Birth1817, Frankfurt am Main, Germany1200,434
Death5 Mar 1913, Paris, France1200,434
Spouses
ChildrenBerthe (1862-1930)
 Julie (1886-)
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Weil

Henri Weil was the German-born French Jewish philologist. [note that birth and death data given in Wiki at the date of access (14 Jan 2007 is wrong]

He was educated at the universities of Bonn, Berlin, and Leipzig. He went to France, and continued his studies at Paris, graduating as "docteur ès lettres" in 1845, and becoming "agrégé" in 1848. Appointed professor of ancient literature at the University of Besançon, he was in 1872 elected dean of the faculty. In 1876 he was called to Paris to fill a vacancy as instructor in the normal high school and to assume charge of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, both of which positions he resigned in 1891. In 1866 he was elected corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, becoming full member in 1882 as the successor of Dulaurier. In 1887 he received the cross of the Legion of Honor.

Weil edited the poems of Aeschylus, eight tragedies of Euripides, and the orations of Demosthenes. Among his works may be mentioned: De l'Ordre des Mots dans les Langues Anciennes Comparées aux Langues Modernes (Paris, 1844; 3d ed. 1879); De Tragædiarum Græcarum cum Rebus Publicis Conjunctione (with L. Beuloew, Paris and Berlin, 1845); Théorie Générale de l'Accentuation Latine (ib. 1855); and Etudes sur le Drame Antique (ib. 1897).
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