Quotes:Quicherat, Louis-Marie

Zirkoff, Boris

Quicherat, Louis-Marie. French philologist, b. at Paris, Oct. 12, 1799; d. there Nov. 17, 1884. After a college education, taught rhetoric in various universities and was appointed, 1843, director of the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève. Was elected, 1864, member of the Académie des Inscriptions, to replace Hase. Outstanding Latin scholar of great renown. Author of: Thesaurus poeticus linguae latinae, Paris, 1836; Dictionnaire latin-français, Paris, 1844; Dictionnaire français-latin, Paris, 1858; Mélange de philologie, Paris, 1879. Published a considerable number of annotated editions of the classics, such as Horace, Virgil, Homer, etc., and many articles on philology in the current journals.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 449