English classical scholar
Born 1788 Died 1816
Edward Valentine Blomfield, brother of Bishop C. J. Blomfield, was born at Bury St. Edmunds on the 14th of February 1788. Going to Caius College, Cambridge, he was thirteenth wrangler in 1811, obtained several of the classical prizes of the university, and became a fellow and lecturer at Emmanuel College. In 1813 he travelled in Germany and made the acquaintance of some of the great scholars of Germany. On his return, he published in the Museum Criticum (No. ii.) an interesting paper on The Present State of Classical Literature in Germany. Blomfield is chiefly known by his translation of Matthiae's Greek Grammar (1819), which was prepared for the press by his brother. He died on the 9th of October 1816, his early death depriving Cambridge of one who seemed destined to take a high place amongst her most brilliant classical scholars.
See Memoir of Edward Valentine Blomfield, by Bishop Monk, in Museum Criticum, No. vii.
Being the entry for BLOMFIELD, EDWARD VALENTINE in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, the text of which lies within the public domain.