Peter Paul Dobrée
{{Short description|British classical scholar and critic}}
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| name = Peter Paul Dobrée
| image = Peter Paul Dobree (1782–1825).jpg
| caption = Peter Paul Dobrée, 1866
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1782|6|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = Guernsey, Channel Islands
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1825|9|24|1782|6|26|df=y}}
| death_place = Cambridge, England
| alma_mater = Cambridge
| occupation = Classical scholar, critic
| nationality = British
}}
Peter Paul Dobrée (26 June 1782{{snd}}24 September 1825) was a British classical scholar and critic.
Early life and education
He was born in 1782 in Guernsey, the Channel Islands to the Reverend William Dobrée.{{cite book |last1=Agnew |first1=David Carnegie Andrew |title=Protestant Exiles from France in the Reign of Louis XIV: Or, the Huguenot Refugees and Their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland |date=1874 |publisher=Reeves & Turner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9U44AQAAMAAJ&dq=Guernsey,+peter+paul+dobree&pg=PA105 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Hanks |first1=Patrick |last2=Coates |first2=Richard |last3=McClure |first3=Peter |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland |date=2016-11-17 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-252747-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0AyDDQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Peter+Paul+Dobr%C3%A9e%22&pg=PA735 |language=en}} He was educated at Reading School under Richard Valpy and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow.{{acad|id=DBRY800PP|name=Dobrée, Peter Paul}}
Career
Dobrée was an intimate friend of Richard Porson, whom he took as his model in textual criticism, although he showed less caution in conjectural emendation. After Porson's death (1808) Dobrée was commissioned with James Henry Monk and Charles James Blomfield to edit his literary remains, which had been bequeathed to Trinity College.{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Dobree, Peter Paul|volume=8|page=351}}
Illness and a subsequent journey to Iglesias, Sardinia to visit Fabrizio Dobre delayed the work until 1820, when Dobree brought out the Plutus of Aristophanes (with his own and Porson's notes) and all Porson's Aristophanica. Two years later, he published the Lexicon of Photius from Porson's transcript of the Gale manuscript in Trinity College library, to which he appended a Lexicon rhetoricum, from the margin of a Cambridge manuscript of Harpocration.
He was appointed Regius Professor of Greek in 1823. He died on 24 September 1825{{cite book |last1=Luard |first1=Henry Richards |title=A chronological list of the graces, documents, and other papers in the University registry, which concern the University library [by H.R. Luard]. |date=1870 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ruYGAAAAQAAJ&dq=Dobr%C3%A9e+died+1825&pg=PA31 |language=en}} at Trinity College, after a short illness.{{Cite web| url=http://www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk/articles/article/peter-paul-dobrée-his-friend-economist-george-pryme| title=Peter Paul Dobree, by his friend, the economist George Pryme| last=Pryme| first =George| date=1870| website=Priaulx Library| publisher=Priaulx Library| access-date=December 29, 2015}}
James Scholefield, his successor in the Greek professorship, brought out selections from his notes (Adversaria, 1831–1833) on Greek and Latin authors (especially the orators), and a reprint of the Lexicon rhetoricum, together with notes on inscriptions (1834–1835).
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Category:English classical scholars
Category:People educated at Reading School
Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Category:People from the Bailiwick of Guernsey
Category:Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge
Category:Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of classics
Category:Regius Professors of Greek (Cambridge)
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