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John Antony Cramer
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or JOHN ANTONY CRAMER (1793-1848), English classical scholar and geographer, was born at Mitlodi in Switzerland. He was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford. He resided in Oxford till 1844, during which time he held many important offices, being public orator, principal of New Inn Hall (which he rebuilt at his own expense), and professor of modern history. In 1844 he was appointed to the deanery of Carlisle, which he held until his death at Scarborough on the 24th of August 1848. His works are of considerable importance: A Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over the Alps, published anonymously with H. L. Wickham (2nd ed., 1828), "a scholarlike work of first-rate ability"; geographical and historical descriptions of Ancient Italy (1826), Ancient Greece (1828), Asia Minor (1832); Travels of Nicander Nucius of Corcyra [Greek traveller of the 16th century] in England (1841); Catenae Graecorum Patrum in Novum Testamentum (1838-1844) Anecdota Graeca (from the MSS. of the royal library in Paris, 1839-1841).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'John Antony Cramer'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/j/john-antony-cramer.html. 1910.
