Valckenaer, Lodewijk Caspar

Valckenaer, Lodewijk Caspar a Friesian philologist, born at Leeuwarden in 1715. He studied, at Franeker and Leyden; became co-rector of the gymnasium of Campen; professor of Greek at Franeker (1741); removed to Leyden as professor of the Greek language and antiquities, and died there, March 14,1785. Among his works are, De Aristobulo Judaeo: — Selecta e Scholiis L. C. Valckenarii in Libros quosdam N.T., published by Wassenbergh (Amst. 1815, 2 vols. 8vo).