Carl Benedict Hase

Charles Benoît Hare ( German: Karl Benedict Hase, born May 11, 1780 in Bad Sulza at Naumburg, † March 21, 1864 in Paris) was a French Hellenist and paleograph German origin who worked in Paris.

Hare studied by visiting the Wilhelm -Ernst -Gymnasium in Weimar since 1798 in Jena and Helmstedt, in 1801 went to Paris, where he received in 1805 a position at the Imperial Library, co-educators of the two sons of Queen Hortense Eugenie Beauharnais in 1812 at the same time ( Napoleon Louis and polytechnique Louis Napoleon ), 1815 lecturer in Modern Greek at the École des langues orientales, 1819 just a professor of modern Greek and since 1838 also for Greek paleography, 1824 Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles- Lettres in 1830 professor of German language and literature at the École 1832 curator of manuscripts in the library, since 1847 director of the École des langues orientales, in 1852 professor of comparative grammar at the university.

A leading expert on Greek paleography, but not a prolific writer, has made ​​Hase earned by the mainly worked with the brothers Wilhelm and Ludwig Dindorf new edition of Stephanus ' Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Paris 1832-65, 9 vols ). On August 28, 1812, he received the philosophical honorary doctorate from the University of Berlin. In 1842 he received the Order Pour le Mérite.

Furthermore comes from him a copy of Leo the Deacon (Paris 1819; newly edited in Corpus Historiae Scriptorum Byzantinae, Bonn 1828), by John Lydos ' De ostentis et de mensibus (Paris 1823) and a number of monographs.

Among his pupils was his later successor Emmanuel Miller.