Franz van Oudendorp

Franz van Oudendorp

Franz van Oudendorp also: Frans, Franciscus van Oudendorp (born July 31, 1696 in Leiden ; † February 14, 1761 ibid) was a Dutch classical philologist.

Life

Oudendorp was enrolled at the University of Leiden on March 7, 1708 , where he studied philosophical sciences with Jakob Gronovius , Jacobus Perizonius and Pieter Burman the Elder . Then he worked as a teacher at the city school in Leiden. In 1724 he became rector of the Latin school in Nijmegen and opened this teaching post with a Latin speech about the use and necessity of public schools. From 1726 he was the rector of the Latin school in Haarlem . He was happily married with a wife of the same mind, Sara Torren. Through her mediation, he made friends with the well-known legal scholar and poet Peter d'Orville. On September 12, 1740 he was appointed professor of history and rhetoric at the Leiden University, which task he took on on October 25 of the same year with the introductory speech De literariis Caji Julii Caesaris studiis . He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Leiden University and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1751/52 . It was around this time that the Society of Sciences in Haarlem appointed him a member.

Oudendorp gained great fame in its day by publishing the writings of a large number of Latin writers. With careful comparison of rare manuscripts that, in addition to the book collections in his native city, particularly the libraries in Vienna and Florence , he organized extensive editions of Lucan (Leiden 1728), Sextus Iulius Frontinus (Leiden 1731), and Julius Caesar with critical comments (Leiden 1737), Suetonius (Leiden 1751) and Apuleius (posthumously Leiden 1786). He also appeared as a Latin poet.

His son Cornelius bequeathed his written estate and his book collection to the Leiden University Library .

Works

• Orat. De usu et necessitate publicarum scholarum. Nijmegen 1724
• Orat. Inaug. de ingenuae educationis et ad eam scholarum necessitale. Haarlem 1726
• Julius Obsequens de prodigiis cum annotationibus Io. Schefferi cum suis et supplementis Conr. Lycosthenis. Suffering 1720
• M. Annaei Lucani cordubensis Pharsalia. Leiden 1728 ( Online ) ed.altera multo auctior et emendatior. Leiden 1779
• Sextus Julius Frontonis, Libri Quatuor Strategemation. Leiden, 1731, ( online ), 1779 ( online )
• Carmen elegiacum de veris adventu. (Latin-Dutch) Haarlem 1734 ( online )
• C. Jul. Caesaris de bellis gallico et civilii Pompeiani (...). Leiden 1737
• Oratio inauguralis de litteratis C. Julii Cæsaris studiis de litteratis C. Julii Cæsaris studiis. Leiden 1740 ( online )
• Oratio de Veterum Incriptionum et monumentorum usu legatoque Papenbroekiano. Leiden 1745 ( online )
• Brevis veterum monumentorum from Amplissimo viro Gerardo Papenbroekiano Academiae Lugduni Batavae legatorum descriptio in duas partes divisa, quarum prima Graecos Latinosque titulos et anaglypha continet, secunda statuas, imagines etc. conplectitur. Leiden 1746 ( online )
• Cajus Suetonius Tranquillus. Leiden 1751 ( online )
• Laudation funebris, sanctissimae memoriae Guilielmi Caroli Henrici Frisonis, Arausii et Nassoviae principis .... Leiden 1752
• Thomas Magister Johannis Stephani Bernardi. Leiden 1757
• Laudation funebris Annae. Leiden 1759
• Apulejus. Leiden 1786 (published by his son Cornelius)

literature

• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 18, vol. 14, p. 267 ( online )
• CA Siegenbeek van Heukelom-Lamme: Album Scholasticum Academiae Lugduno-batave. Brill Archive, Leiden 1941,
• Carl Joseph Bouginé: Handbook of the general Litterargeschichte after Heumann's plan. Orell, Geßner, Füßli and Comp. Zurich, 1791, vol. 4, p. 554 ( online )