Johan Peter Weisse

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Johan Peter Weisse in 1881.

Johan Peter Weisse (13 August 1832 – 7 March 1886) was a Norwegian philologist.

Personal life

He was born in Fluberg as a son of physician Joachim Frederik Weisse and his wife Grethe Fleischer. His grandfather had migrated to Norway from Brandenburg. The family moved to Trondhjem in 1833.[1]

He married his own cousin Maja Stang (1843–1916) in July 1863 in Fredrikshald.[1] She was an aunt of engineer Olaf Stang.[2] In May 1893 one of their daughters married politician Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark.[3] Through them, Weisse was the maternal grandfather of professor Johan Peter Holtsmark, professor Anne Holtsmark and painter Karen Holtsmark.[4]

Career

He took his

cand.philol. degree in 1858.[1]

In October 1858 he was hired as co-editor (together with

Camillo Cavour. In early 1861 Weisse was hired as teacher at Trondhjem Cathedral School. He stayed here until September 1865, when he changed to Fredrikshalds lærde og realskole. From June 1874 to April 1875 he worked at Christiania Cathedral School, and from April 1875 he was an inspector at Aars og Voss School. In November and December 1875 he held trial lectures for the position as professor at the Royal Frederick University, and he was appointed on 23 December in competition with Jan Johanssen. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1879. He continued as professor until his death, and also held numerous popular lectures. His obituary in Dagbladet read that Weisse wanted to "form men and not mere objects for examination".[1]

He contributed "significantly" to Marius Nygaard's textbooks on Old Norse,[1] first published in 1871.[5] In 1871, Weisse released his own Latin grammar, Latinsk Grammatik til Skolebrug, but it was considered too difficult for school students, and was out-competed by Emil Schreiner's Latinsk Sproglære.[1] The dominating Latin-Norwegian dictionary was later released by Schreiner, Nygaard and Johanssen.[5] Schreiner sat on the committee that hired Weisse as professor in 1875.[1]

Weisse died from a

Vår Frelsers gravlund.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Amundsen, Leiv (1977). "Weisse, Johan Peter". In Jansen, Jonas; Anker, Øyvind; Kaldhol, Bjarte (eds.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 18 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 387–392.
  2. Store norske leksikon
    (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  3. Bull, Edvard; Krogvig, Anders; Gran, Gerhard (eds.). Norsk biografisk leksikon
    (in Norwegian). Vol. 6 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 325–326.
  4. ^ "Holtsmark" (in Norwegian). Lier municipality. Retrieved 7 May 2009.
  5. ^ a b Halvorsen, Eyvind Fjeld. "Marius Nygaard". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 6 February 2010.

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