Editing Jan Bake

{{Short description|Dutch philologist and critic (1787–1864)}}
[[File:John-Bake-LB.jpg|thumb|John Bake]]
'''Jan Bake''' (1 September 1787 &ndash; 26 March 1864) was a Dutch [[philologist]] and critic.  He was born in [[Leiden]], and from 1817 to 1854 he was professor of [[Greek literature|Greek]] and [[Latin literature|Roman literature]] at the university.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

His principal works are:-
*''Posidonii Rhodii Reliquiae Doctrinae'' (1810)
*''Cleomedis Circularis Doctrina de Sublimitate'' (1820)
*''Bibliotheca Critica Nova'' (1825–1831)
*''Scholica Hypomnemata'' (1837–1862), a collection of essays dealing mainly with [[Cicero]] and the Attic orators
*''Cicero, De Legibus'' (1842) and ''De Oratore'' (1863)
*''[[Apsines|Apsinis]] et [[Johannes Longinus|Longini]] Rhethorica'' (1849).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

His biography was written (in Dutch) by his pupil [[Bakhuizen van der Brink]] (1865); for an appreciation of his services to classical literature see L Müller, ''Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in den Nederlanden'' (1869).

==References==
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*{{EB1911|wstitle=Bake, Jan|volume=3|pages=226–227}}

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