HASE, CARL BENEDICT (1780-1864), French Hellenist, of German extraction, was born at Sulza near Naumburg on May II, 178o, and died in Paris on March 21, 1864. He made his way to Paris on foot in 1801, and from being employed to edit Johannes Lydus by Choiseul-Gouffier, devoted himself to Byzan tine studies. In addition to various professorships, in 1812 he was chosen to supervise the studies of Louis Napoleon and his brother. His most important works are the editions of Leo Diaconus and other Byzantine writers (1819), and of Johannes Lydus, De ostentis (1823), a masterpiece of textual restoration, the diffi culties of which were aggravated by the fact that the ms. had for a long time been stowed away in a wine-barrel in a monastery.
See J. D. Guigniaut, Notice historique sur la vie et les travaux de Carl Benedict Hase (1867) ; articles in Nouvelle Biographie generale and Allgemeine deutsche Biographic; and a collection of autobiogra phical letters, Brie f e von der Wanderung and aus Paris, edited by O. Heine (1894), containing a vivid account of Hase's journey, his enthusiastic impressions of Paris and the hardships of his early life.