The New International Encyclopædia/Weil, Henri

WEIL, Henri (1818—). A German-French classical scholar, born at Frankfort-on-the-Main. He studied at Bonn, Berlin, and Leipzig, and in 1847 was an associate professor at Strassburg, whence he was called two years later to Besançon. In 1870 he went to Paris as professor of Greek at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Ecole des Hautes-Etudes. Among his works are De l'ordre des mots dans les langues anciennes, comparées aux langues modernes (1844; 3d ed. 1879), his masterpiece; and editions of Æschylus, with a Latin commentary (2 vols., 1861-67; 2d ed. 1884); seven tragedies of Euripides, with a French commentary (1868; 2d ed. 1879); Les harangues de Démosthène (1873; 2d ed. 1881); Les plaidoyers politiques de Démosthène (1877-86); Etudes sur le drame antique (1897); and Etudes de littérature et de rhythmique grecques (1902).