Littre

LITTRE, Maximilien Paul Emile, male si-mil-i-66 p61 a-mel le-tra, French lexicogra pher and philosopher: b. Paris, 1 Feb. 1801; d. there, 2 June 1881. After completing his course at school he studied deeply in English and Ger man and in classical and Sanskrit literature. He intended to follow the medical profession; his study of medicine was interrupted by the death of his father. He then emfaged in teach ing for a livelihood, took an active part in the Revolution of 1830, and soon after was invited by Armand Carrel, editor of the National, to write for that paper. In 1839 he published the first volume of an edition of Hippocrates in the original, with a French translation and copious notes. This work, in 10 volumes, se cured his admission to the Academie des In scriptions et Belles-Lettres. He translated Strauss' which has been called the best dictionary of any living language yet published, and is a monument of its author's patience and lucidity no less than of his erudi tion. This was finished in 1873, two years

previous to which Lime had been admitted into the Academie Francaise. Another important work of his was an edition of Pliny's (1875), and et Glanures> (1880).