Miscellanea critica quibus continentur observationes criticae in scriptores Graecos praesertim Homerum et Demosthenem. – COBET, C.G., Snelle Levering

Carel Gabriel Cobet (1813-1889) was considered to be the most important Greek scholar in the Netherlands in the 19th century, and the most outstanding textual critic, with an exceptional linguistic understanding which he could use like few other contemporaries to purify badly transmitted texts of their corruptions through critical observation. In this he followed both English (Bentley) and Dutch (Hemsterhuys) traditions. The significance of his work for the texts involved is outstanding; it retains its use…