Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer

Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer (Leeuwarden, 7 June 1715 – Leiden, 15 March 1785), latinized as Ludovici Caspari Valckenaer, was a Dutch classical scholar, at Leiden. He was a follower of Tiberius Hemsterhuis, and his successor in 1766 in the chair of Greek at Leiden. He was born in Leeuwarden.

Title page of Theocritus: Carmina bucolica, edited by Valckenaer, Leiden 1779. Running Greek script.

The jurist and politician Johan Valckenaer (1759–1821) was his son.

Works
  • Ammonius. De adfinium vocabulorum differentia (Leiden 1739)
  • Dictata in antiquitates Graecas (1751)
  • Observationes philologicae in Evangelium Lucae (1751)
  • Observationes philologicae in Actus Apostolicos (1752)
  • Observationes philologicae in primam Pauli epistolam ad Corinthios (1752)
  • Phoenissae (1755)
  • Diatribe in Euripidis deperditorum dramatum reliquias (1767)
  • Euripidis Tragoedia Hippolytus (Commentary, 1768)
  • Diatribe de Aristobulo Judaeo: philosopho peripatetico Alexandrino (published posthumously, 1806)

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