Pierre Henri Larcher
Pierre Henri Larcher (12 October 1726 – 22 December 1812) was a French
archaeologist
.
Life
Born at
Academie des Inscriptions (1778).[1]
After the imperial university was founded, he was appointed professor of Greek literature (1809) with Boissonade as his assistant.[1]
Larcher's best work was his translation of
W. D. Cooley) dealing with historical, geographical and chronological questions, and enriched by a wealth of illustration from ancient and modern authors, is not without value.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Larcher, Pierre Henri". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.; endnotes:
- Jean François Boissonade, Notice sur la vie et les ecrits de P. L. (1813)
- Friedrich August Wolf, Literarische Analecten, i. 205
- Daniel Albert Wyttenbach, Philomathia, iii. (1817)
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