Henry Drisler
Henry Drisler (December 27, 1818 – November 30, 1897) was an American classical scholar.[1][2]
Life
He was born in
Dr. Drisler completed and supplemented Dr. Anthon's labors as an editor of classical texts. His criticisms and corrections of Liddell and Scott's A Greek–English Lexicon, of which he produced American editions beginning in 1846. He revised and augmented the seventh edition (1883) for an American one (1889) which won his name a place on the title-page of the eighth British edition in 1897. In 1870 he published a revised and enlarged edition of Yonge's English-Greek Lexicon. His revisions are also part of the history of the work that is currently available as Lewis and Short's A Latin Dictionary.[3][4]
Dr. Drisler ardently opposed slavery. In 1863, he wrote a brilliant refutation of Episcopal Bishop John Henry Hopkins' book the Bible View of Slavery by John H. Hopkins, D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont: Examined by Henry Drisler. The refutation relied completely on the Bible and displayed Dr. Drisler's wide range of scholarship.[3]
References
- ^ Columbia University (1897). Service in Memory of Henry Drisler: Columbia University Chapel, Sunday December the Twelfth ... A.D. 1897.
- ISBN 978-0-313-24560-2.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- ^ William George Smith; Henry Drisler (1868). Principia Latina: A first Latin reading book ... Harper & Bros.
- Attribution
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Drisler, Henry". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 584–585. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- Henry Drisler at the Database of Classical Scholars