Pieter Burman the Elder

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Pieter Burman
Born1668
Died1741 (aged 72–73)
NationalityDutch
Academic background
Alma materUtrecht University
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
InstitutionsUtrecht University

Pieter Burman (6 July 1668 – 31 March 1741), also known as Peter or Pieter Burmann

Latin
: Senior), was a Dutch classical scholar.

Life

Burman was born at

Leiden, paying special attention to philosophy and Greek.[7]

On Burman's return to Utrecht he took the degree of doctor of laws (March 1688), and after travelling through Switzerland and part of Germany, settled down to the practice of law, without, however, abandoning his classical studies. In December 1691 he was appointed receiver of the tithes which were originally paid to the bishop of Utrecht, and five years later was nominated to the professorship of eloquence and history. To this chair was soon added that of Greek and politics. In 1714 he paid a short visit to Paris and ransacked the libraries. In the following year he was appointed successor to the celebrated Perizonius, who had held the chair of history, Greek language and eloquence at Leiden.[1]

Burman was subsequently appointed professor of history for the United Provinces and in 1724 he became the 9th Librarian of Leiden University. His numerous editorial and critical works spread his fame as a scholar throughout Europe, and engaged him in many of the stormy disputes which were then so common among men of letters.[7]

Works

Title page of Burman's Quintilian edition (Leiden 1720)

Burman published Latin editions of

Vergil, an edition that was completed by his nephew.[20]

Burman also emended

George Buchanan's Latin works,[21] continued Graevius's Thesauruses of Italian[22] and Sicilian history,[23] and wrote the treatise De Vectigalibus Populi Romani (1694)[24] and A Brief Description of Roman Antiquities (1711).[25] His Sylloge of Letters Written by Illustrious Men (1725–27)[26] contains biographical material on scholars.[7] He edited several other volumes of letters as well.[27]

The list of Burman's works occupies five pages in

Gentleman's Magazine for April 1742 by Samuel Johnson.[7]

Legacy

In his edition of Petronius's Satyricon, Burman demonstrated that the supplementary material recently added to the text by François Nodot was in fact a forgery.[citation needed]

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b EB (1878).
  2. ^ a b Burman (1698).
  3. ^ Papy (2013).
  4. ^ Wiep van Bunge et al. (2003).
  5. ^ Gaß (1876).
  6. ^ Ripley & Dana (1879).
  7. ^ a b c d EB (1911).
  8. ^ Burman (1699).
  9. ^ Heins (1702) & Burman (1724).
  10. ^ Burman (1709).
  11. ^ Burman (1710).
  12. ^ Burman (1713a), Burman (1713b), & Burman (1713b).
  13. ^ Burman (1727a), Burman (1727b), Burman (1727c), & Burman (1727d).
  14. ^ Burman (1719).
  15. ^ Burman (1720a) & Burman (1720b).
  16. ^ Burman (1722).
  17. ^ Burman (1731).
  18. ^ Burman (1736).
  19. ^ Burman (1740c).
  20. ^ Burman (1746a).
  21. ^ Ruddiman (1725).
  22. ^ Greffe (1722a), Greffe (1722b), Greffe (1722c), Greffe (1722d), Greffe (1723a), Greffe (1723b), & Greffe (1723c).
  23. ^ Greffe (1723d) & Greffe (1725).
  24. ^ Burman (1694).
  25. ^ Burman (1715).
  26. ^ Burman (1725a) & Burman (1727e).
  27. ^ Burman (1697) & Burman (1725b).
  28. ^ Burman (1703), Burman (1706), Burman (1725b), Burman (1732), Burman (1740a), & Burman (1741b).
  29. ^ Burman (1746b).

Bibliography

External links

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