Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison
Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison was born on March 5, 1750. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison
Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse (or Dannse) de Villoison (5 March 1750 (or 1753) – 25 April 1805) was a classical scholar born at Corbeil-sur-Seine, France. In 1773, he published the Homeric Lexicon of Apollonius the Sophist from a manuscript in the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. In 1778, his edition of Longus's Daphnis and Chloë was published. He went to Venice in 1781, and spent three years there examining the library, his expenses being paid by the French government. His chief discovery was a 10th-century manuscript of the Iliad—the famous codex Venetus A, with ancient scholia and marginal…