Jacques Philippe d'Orville

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Jacques Philippe d'Orville, painting by Jan Maurits Quinkhard

Jacques Philippe d'Orville (also: Jacob ) (* July 28, 1696 in Amsterdam ; † September 4, 1751 in Groenendaal (near Heemstede )) was a Dutch classical philologist, professor at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam .

ancestors

His grandfather (1588–1660) fled as a Huguenot religious refugee from Aix (Aachen) to Hamburg and ran a trade there, where he died at the age of 72. According to the available data, he fathered a son Jean d'Orville (1659–1751) at the old age of 71. He was born in Hamburg on August 23, 1659 and married Catharina Neys, a woman from Amsterdam. He and another branch of the family successfully carried on his trading business. Jean (John) Leonhard d'Orville, one of his ten children, successfully moved to England as a businessman. Son Pierre (Peter) (1697–1739) became Dr. jur. and also a successful trader. In addition, he acquired a great and recognized knowledge of Latin poetry. A collection of some of his elegant Latin poems was published in Amsterdam in 1740. When he died early, his brother Jacques Philipp d'Orville became his rich legacy.

education and profession

His father Jean d'Orville (1659–1751) also planned for his son Jacques Philipp d'Orville (1690–1751) to train as a businessman, but the Dutch neo-Latin poet and philologist David van Hoogstraten (1658–1724) convinced him to Teacher of Jacques Philipp, giving his son a scientific education. At an early age, Jacques Philipp attended courses at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam with the first Dutch professor of Greek Tiberius Hemsterhuis (1685–1766). He successfully studied law at the University of Leiden . From 1723 to 1729 he made several scientific trips to Brabant, France, England, Italy, Germany and Austria with the aim of acquainting himself with the remains of classical literature and art and with the best living scholars. In this "Grand Tours" he mainly visited libraries and museums, studied copies of Greek manuscripts and met numerous scholars such as Bernard de Montfaucon , Sallier, Fraguier, Sevin, Chamillart, Bouquet, Boivin and Tournemine in Paris and read the famous book of the Scholar Antonio Magliabechi from his time in Florence. Accompanied by a painter and architect, Jacques Philipp d'Orville traveled to Sicily from May 1726 to November 1728 for archaeological studies . Pieter Burman the Elder (1668–1741), Dutch classical philologist and other scholars ensured that Jacques Philipp d'Orville was appointed professor of rhetoric, history and the Greek language at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam in his hometown in 1730.

Living on the Groenendaal estate near Heemstede

In 1742 he renounced his professorship in favor of his friend Pieter Burman the Younger (1741–1778), Dutch classical philologist, and withdrew, with poor health, to the Groenendaal estate near Heemstede, which his father Jean d'Orville (1659–1751) had acquired . It is centrally located in the triangle of Amsterdam, Haarlem and Leiden. Jacques Philipp d'Orville lived here from then on, retaining his rank and title as emeritus. He was a scientist until his death. He was editor of the edition 'Miscellanae observationis criticae Novae in Auctores Veteres et recentiores' and published many scientific articles.

Own family

Jacques Philipp d'Orville was married to Mary Elizabeth van Rijn, the daughter of an auctioneer in Amsterdam, from 1730. She died at a young age in 1737 after only seven years of marriage after giving birth to two children. The youngest son died at an early age. The eldest son Jean (John), named after his grandfather Jean d'Orville (1659–1751), graduated from the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam in 1751 . Jacques Philipp d'Orville died in September 1751 in his house on the Groenendaal. A month later, his friend and successor as professor of rhetoric, Pieter Burman the Younger, gave a funeral speech from the pulpit in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam with great solemnity. The heirs sold the assets in Heemstede to David van Lennep in 1751. The properties used or built by Jacques Philipp d'Orville have completely disappeared. What remains to this day are some damaged historic landmarks that demarcated its territory from others.

Bibliotheca d'Orvilliana

In 1764 an auction catalog of the books and manuscripts from the estate of Jacques Philipp d'Orville appeared under the title: "Bibliotheca d'Orvilliana, sive, catalog librorum instructissimae Bibliothecae viri Summi D. Jacobi Philippi d'Orvillii". For some unknown reason, the auction was unsuccessful. Son and heir Jean (John) d'Orville kept the collection and brought it to London. Here it was then sold by his son, grandson of Jacob Philippe d'Orville, to the J.Cleaver Banken company, which then sold the collection to the Bibliotheca Bodleiana at Oxford University . Among other things, the collection contained 612 manuscripts in ancient Greek and Latin.

gallery

  • The gate to the former high school Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam

  • 1727 trip to Taormina / Sicily

  • a gate entrance from Groenendaal

  • Groenendaal koetshuis

  • Tuinkoepel - Heemstede

  • Theekoepel - Heemstede

  • Tiberius Hemsterhuis

Honor

Taormina / Sicily honored the sustained visit of Jacques Philipp d'Orville a. 1727 with the patronage Via d'Orville. a. in their city, 60 years before Goethe's visit in 1787 and his texts in his Italian journey .

Fonts

  • Jacobi Philippi Et Petri D'Orville Elegiae in Obitum Potae Clarissimi Davidis Hoogstratani, Batavi [Latin], Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions, ISBN 978-1-170-13834-2 .
  • De Chaerea et Callirrhoe amatoriarum narrationum libri VIII. Charitonis Aphrodisiensis De Chaerea Et Callirrhoe Amatoriarvm Narrationvm Libri VIII. Graece et Latine. Edition: Editio Altera Emendationibvs Virorvm Doctorvm Adiectis Avctior; Author: Chariton <Aphrodisiensis> / Editor: Jacques Philippe d'Orville (1696–1751) / Translator: Johann Jacob Reiske (1716–1774).
  • Orville, Jacques Philippe d '. 1696–1751: Jacobi Philippi D'Orville Sicula, quibus Siciliae veteris rudera, additis antiquitatum tabulis, illustrantur. Edidit, et commentarium ad numismata sicula, 20. tabulis aeneis incisa… orationem in auctoris obitum, et praefationem adjecit Petrus Burmannus secundus .. Amstelaedami 1764.
  • Orville, Pierre d '- PETRI D'ORVILLE, JURISCONSULTI, POEMATA 1740, Amsterdam, Publisher: Adrian Wor & heirs of Gerard 1st and Only edition, 1740; (Brother of Jacques Philipp d'Orville)

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personal data
SURNAME d'Orville, Jacques Philippe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES d'Orville, Jacob Philipp; d'Orville, J. Ph.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1751
Place of death Heemstede , Netherlands