Jacobus Johannes Hartman

Jacobus Johannes Hartman

Jacobus Johannes Hartman (born February 14, 1851 in Blankenham ; † January 29, 1924 in Leiden ) was a Dutch classical philologist .

Life

Jacobus Johannes was the son of pastor Jan Jacob Hartmann (* around 1804 in Amsterdam; † 31 July 1871 in Leiden) and his wife Anna Elisabeth Ott, who was married on 10 October 1839 in Amsterdam (* 18 January 1811 in Amsterdam; † 15. February 1891 in Leiden). He attended the village school of his birthplace, then the French school of JC Kesler in Amsterdam and the grammar school there. In July 1869 he began his studies at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam and in 1870 moved to the University of Leiden . Here Carel Gabriel Cobet , Willem Georg Pluijgers (* February 18, 1812 in Zwolle, † April 30, 1880 in Leiden), Matthias de Vries and Joël Emanuel Goudsmit were his formative teachers.

On 16 June 1877 he was with the work Studia critica in Luciani opera Doctor of Philosophy PhD . He then worked from September 1, 1877 as a teacher and in 1883 as deputy principal at the municipal high school in Leiden . On July 11, 1891, Hartman was appointed professor of Latin language and literature and Roman antiquities at the University of Leiden. He took on this task on September 23, 1891 with the inaugural speech De literarum veterum amicis et inimicis . During this time he wrote many works on the Greek and Latin languages ​​and literature. He also wrote some Latin poems.

In 1902 he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences , was knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion , officer of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques , foreign member of the Epistemonikes Hetaireias in Athens and of the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana in Mantua . In addition, he participated in the organizational tasks of the university as rector of the Alma Mater in 1907/08, when he gave the rector's speech De eloquentia philologo colenda on February 8th . At the age of 70, he resigned his professorship on June 2, 1921 and retired on September 19, 1921 .

Hartman married on December 14, 1893 in Leiden Pieternella Cornelia Verpoorten (born January 13, 1862 in Wilnis, † December 19, 1944 in Haarlem), the daughter of Dirk Verpoorten (born June 9, 1831 in Ijsselstein; † April 25, 1869) and Dina Jacoba Nolet (born February 17, 1838 in Zierikzee, † August 29, 1925 in Leiden). Only daughter Anna Elisabeth Ottilia Hartman (born January 11, 1899 in Leiden, † July 8, 1899 in Lisse) came from the marriage.

Works (selection)

• Studia critica in Luciani opera. 1877 ( online )
• Studia Antiphontea. 1882
• Analecta Xenophontea. 1889
• De Phaedri Fabulis commentatio. 1890
• De literarum veterum amicis et inimicis. (De vrienden en vijanden van de klassieke letteren). 1891
• De Horatio poeta. 1891 ( online )
• De Terentio et Donato commentatio. 1895 ( online )
• Analecta Tacitea. 1905 ( online )
• De Ovidio poeta commentatio. 1905
• De Avondzon of the Pagan Dome. Het leven en werken van den wijze van Chaeronea. 1910 ( online )
• Flos delibatus Elegiae Romanae . 1911 ( online )
• Beatus illeg. Een book voor iedereen over Horatius. 1913
• De Plutarcho scriptore et philosopho. 1916 ( online )
• Honderd jaar geestelijk leven in the Romeinsche Keizertijd. 1918
• Nagelaten writings. 1926 (from KHE de Jong with CV)

literature

• Onze Hoogleeraren. Portraits and biographies. Nijgh & van Ditmar, Rotterdam, 1898, p. 34
• How is that? Vivat, Amsterdam, 1902, p. 185
• PH Damste: Prof. Dr. JJ Hartman †. In: Jaarboekje voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde van Leiden en Rijnland. PJ Mulder, Leiden, 1926
• A. Kluyver: Levens report JJ Hartman. In: Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam 1924-1925. Amsterdam, pp. 55-84

Web links

Commons : Jacobus Johannes Hartman  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hartman in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden
• Hartman at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
• Hartman at the Digital Library of Dutch Literature