JEAN BAPTISTE GASPARD D'ANSE DE, a very eminent Greek scholar, was born at Corbeil sur Seine, on the 5th of March 1750. At the age of fifteen, it is said, he had read nearly all the Greek authors, and at the age of twenty-two he published from a MS. the Lexicon on the Iliad and Odyssey of Apollonius, together with the fragments of Philemon, 2 vols. Paris, 1773. This work spread the fame of his learning, and he formed extensive literary connections with scholars all over Europe. In 1778 he published an edition of the pastoral poems of Longus; and the same year he was despatched to Venice at the expense of the state, to search the library of St Mark for works which had not yet been printed. The Anekdota Graeca was the result of this inquiry, but this work was found to have been got up with too great precipitation. Another important discovery was a MS. of Homer's Iliad of the tenth century, with notes, usually known as the Scholia Veneta, which was published by Villoison at Venice in 1788. F. A. Wolf based his theory of the Homeric poems almost exclusively on this edition and its Scholia. After a twelve months visit to Weimar, he published his Epistolae Vimariensis at Zürich in 1783. Having gained a complete knowledge of the modern Greek, during a sojourn of three years in the archipelago and the continent of Greece, he was engaged on a great work on that country when a severe illness terminated in his death on the 26th of April 1805. Many of the MSS. of Villoison are in the imperial library of Paris. He was a man of very great attainments; his memory was quite astonishing; but his judgment, as so frequently happens with mere scholars, was feeble, and his reflective power deficient.