Lambert Bos

{{Short description|Dutch scholar (1670–1717)}}

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Lambert Bos (23 October 1670 – 6 January 1717) (or Lambertus Bos or Lammert Bos) was a Dutch scholar, critic and forerunner of Tiberius Hemsterhuis.

Lambert Bos was born at Workum in Friesland, where his father, Jakob Bos, was headmaster of the school.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} His mother was Gerarda de Haan.{{cite web|url=http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/molh003nieu04_01/molh003nieu04_01_0364.htm|title=Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 4 · dbnl|work=dbnl.org}} He was baptised in the reformed church in Workum on 25 November 1670.http://tresoar.nl/freegjesam/as_web.exe?dregio13+D+25127580{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He went to the University of Franeker (suppressed by Napoleon in 1811), and was appointed lector in 1697 and professor of Greek in 1704.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} On 28 February 1712 he married Feiktje Doeckes Sineda, the widow of the priest Gerradus Horreus,[http://tresoar.nl/freegjesam/as_web.exe?tregio11+D+2055233 marriage with G Horreus]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at Tresoar Collectie Doop-, Trouw-, Begraaf- en Lidmatenboeken(DTBL) Ondertrouwregister Gerecht Franeker 1677-1700 number: 246 and earlier the widow of Dominic Camper. after an uneventful life he died at Franeker in 1717.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

His most famous work, Ellipses Graecae{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=82oTAAAAQAAJ|title=Ellipses graecae, sive de vocibus, quae in sermone graeco supprimuntur|work=google.com.au|last1=Bos|first1=Lambertus|year=1750}} (1702), was translated into English by John Seager (1830); and his Antiquitates Graecae (1714) passed through several editions. He also published Vetus Testamentum, Ex Versione lxx. Interpretum[https://books.google.com/books?id=8982AAAAMAAJ v1][https://books.google.com/books?id=x-A2AAAAMAAJ v2][https://books.google.com/books?id=tOE2AAAAMAAJ v3][https://books.google.com/books?id=8OA2AAAAMAAJ v4] Google Books full content in Greek and Latin (1709); notes on Thomas Magister (1698); Exercitationes Philologicae ad loca nonnulla Novi Foederis (1700); Animadversiones ad Scriptores quosdam Graecos (1715); and two small treatises on Accents and Greek Syntax.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}