Carl Benedict Hase, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French Hellenist
Date of Birth: 11-May-1780
Place of Birth: Bad Sulza, Thuringia, Germany
Date of Death: 21-Mar-1860
Profession: professor, librarian, classical scholar, archaeologist, classical philologist, hellenist
Nationality: France, Germany
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Carl Benedict Hase
- Carl Benedict Hase (French: Charles Benoît Hase; 11 May 1780 – 21 March 1864), French Hellenist, of German extraction, was born at Sulza near Naumburg. Having studied at Jena and Helmstedt, in 1801 he made his way on foot to Paris, where he was commissioned by the comte de Choiseul-Gouffier, late ambassador to Constantinople, to edit the works of Joannes Laurentius Lydus from a manuscript given to Choiseul by Prince Mourousi. Hase thereupon decided to devote himself to Byzantine history and literature, on which he became the acknowledged authority.
- In 1805 he obtained an appointment in the manuscripts department of the royal library; in 1816 he became professor of palaeography and modern Greek at the École Royale, and in 1852 professor of comparative grammar in the university.
- In 1812 he was selected to superintend the studies of Louis Napoleon (afterwards Napoleon III) and his brother. His most important works are the editions of Leo Diaconus, the De velitatione bellica, and other Byzantine writers (1819), and of Johannes Lydus, De ostentis (1823), a masterpiece of textual restoration, the difficulties of which were aggravated by the fact that the manuscript had for a long time been stowed away in a wine-barrel in a monastery.
- He also edited part of the Greek authors in the collection of the Historians of the Crusades and contributed many additions (from the fathers, medical and technical writers, scholiasts and other sources) to the new edition of Stephanus Byzantinus's Thesaurus. Hase likely forged a work later known as the Fragments of Toparcha Gothicus and passed them off as real to one of his patrons, Nikolay Rumyantsev, causing a period of confusion among Byzantine scholars over the origin of this work.Hase died in Paris.
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