“ Dübner may have gone too far in his zeal for reform, and his opinions may have been too harshly expressed, but time has shown him to be right. The old text-books have been discarded, and a great improvement in classical teaching has taken place in recent years. Dübner died at Montreuil-sous-Bois, near Paris, on the 13th of December 1867.
See F. Godefroy, Notice sur J. F. Dübner (1867) ; Sainte-Beuve, Discours à la mémoire de Dübner (1868) ”