André Dacier

André Dacier was a French classical scholar and editor of texts. He began his career with an edition and commentary of Festus' De verborum significatione, and was the first to produce a "readable" text of the 20-book work. His wife was the influential classical scholar and translator, Anne Dacier.

6 April 1651

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Born in the same month (April 1651): Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus • Jean-Baptiste de La Salle • Joseph Vaz