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'''Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp''' (Groningen, February 2, 1786 - Hilversum, March 28 1865) was a Dutch [[classical scholar]] and [[critic]].
==Life==
He was descended from a family of French refugees named Perlechamp, was born at [[Groningen (city)|Groningen]].
He was professor of ancient literature and universal history at [[university of Leiden|Leiden]] from 1822 to 1849, when he resigned his post and retired to [[Hilversum]], where he died on 28 March 1865.
He was the founder of the subjective method of [[textual criticism]], which consisted in rejecting in a classical author whatever failed to come up to the standard of what that author, in the critic's opinion, ought to have written. His ingenuity in this direction, in which he went much further than [[Richard Bentley|Bentley]], was chiefly exercised on the ''Odes'' of [[Horace]] (the greater part of which he declared spurious), and the ''[[Aeneid]]'' of [[Virgil]].
He also edited the ''Ars poetica'' and ''Satires'' of [[Horace]], the ''Agricola'' of [[Tacitus]], the romance of [[Xenophon of Ephesus]], and was the author of a history of the [[Latin]] poets of the Netherlands (''De vita, doctrina, et facultate Nederlandorum qui carmina latina composuerunt'', 1838).
See [[Lucian Müller|L Müller]], ''Gesch. der klassischen Philologie in den Niederlandes'' (1869), and [[John Edwin Sandys|JE Sandys]], ''Hist. of Class. Schol.'' (1908), ii. 276.
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