COBET, CAREL GABRIEL (1813-1889), Dutch classical scholar, was born at Paris on Nov. 28, 1813. After travelling in Italy to study Greek mss., he was professor at Leyden (1846 1884). He died on Oct. 26, 1889. Cobet's special weapon as a critic was his consummate knowledge of palaeography, combined with rare acumen and wide knowledge of classical literature.
His works include:—Prosopographia Xenophontea (1836) ; Observa tiones criticae in Platonis comici reliquias (1840) ; De Arte interpre tandi Grammatices et Critices Fundamentis innixa (1846) , his inau gural address at Leyden ; Commentationes Philologicae (1850-51) Variae Lectiones (1854) ; Novae Lectiones (1858) ; Miscellanea Critica (1876) ; Collectanea Critica (1878) ; observations of Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1877) ; professorial discourses (1852-6o) . Editions of Diogenes Laertius (1850) ; Philostratus srepi -yuµvaorocijr (1859) speeches of Hypereides (1858-77) and Lysias (1863) . He was the editor of Mnemosyne.
See an appreciative obituary notice by W. G. Rutherford in the Classical Review, Dec. 1889 ; Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol. (1908) iii. 282.