(It was first printed in R. Stephens' edition of Dionysius (Paris, 1547, 4to.), and later in that of H. Stephens (Paris, 1577, 4to., and 1697, 8vo.), in Hudson's Geograph. Minor, vol.
The earliest French philologists, such as Perion and Henri Estienne, had sought to discover the origin of French in Greek and even in Hebrew.
Of his numerous works the most important was his Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (1797—1798), the first independent work of the kind since Stephanus's Thesaurus, and the basis of F. Passow's and all succeeding Greek lexicons (including, therefore, the contemporary standard A Greek-English Lexicon).
Henri Matisse | Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne | Bernard-Henri Lévy | Henri Dutilleux | Paul-Henri Mathieu | Henri Poincaré | Robert Henri | Henri Mignet | Henri Cartier-Bresson | Henri Fayol | Henri Bendel | Henri Barbusse | Jean-Henri Fabre | Henri-Pierre Roché | Henri Langlois | Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg | Henri Fantin-Latour | Robert Estienne | Paul-Henri Spaak | Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre | Henri Wallon | Henri Vieuxtemps | Henri Vernes | Henri Salvador | Henri Pousseur | Henri Michaux | Henri Guillaumet | Henri Estienne | Lycée Henri-IV | Henri Tajfel |
Their greatest work was a new edition of the "Thesaurus Graecae Linguae", of Henry Stephens, edited by Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie, Dindorf, and Hase (9 vols., 1855–59).
Three of Robert's sons, Henri, Robert, and François, became celebrated as printers.