Jan Gerrit Hulleman

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Jan Gerrit Hulleman (also: Janus Gerardus Hulleman ; born April 14, 1815 in Utrecht , † May 30, 1862 in Leiden ) was a Dutch literary scholar .

Life

Jan Gerrit Hulleman was the son of Hendrik Jan Hulleman and Johanna Geertruij Merxlo. He had attended the Hieronymianum grammar school in his hometown. As a pupil of the grammar school he had already enrolled at the University of Utrecht on July 23, 1832 , on September 19, 1832 he left the grammar school with the farewell speech de Dione Syracusano, qui post infractum a se Dionysiorum tyrannidem foeda proditione periit and began under Philipp Wilhelm van Heusde and Antonie van Goudoever studied literature. After becoming a candidate for literature on June 29, 1835, in 1836 he defended the treatise Ex antiquae poëticae principiis, atque ex ipsa civitatum anttquarum historia effatum explicetur veterum, quod apud Ciceronem est pro Cluentio, c. 52. Legum omnes servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus and received his doctorate on June 20, 1838 under Goudoever with the treatise Diatribe in Pomponium Atticum as a Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Literature.

Three months later, on October 1, 1838, he was appointed associate teacher at the Illustre Gymnasium in Maastricht , where he taught the Greek language. He also gave private lessons and found the time to continue his studies. These studies, inspired by Heusde, were directed towards the ancient historians. He attached particular importance to Gerhard Johannes Vossius' history of the Greek and Latin languages, which was published by Anton Westermann . He also devoted himself to the treatment of the historian Duris von Samos , from which occupation the work Duridis Samii quae supersunt (Utrecht 1841) arose. In 1844 he published his next works Ptolomaei Eordaei, Aristobuli Cassandrensis et Charetis Mytelenaei reliquiae and disputatio de vita et scriptis Jubae Maurusii and had previously started a Disputatio critica de Alexandria Delpho .

In June of the following year he became Vice-Rector of the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam . Here he had also written some papers and articles. So for the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences , of which he became a member in 1856, and for the Leiden Society of Dutch Literature. His extremely fruitful work as an author in the field of classical literature resulted in an appointment as professor of speculative philosophy and literature at the University of Leiden on October 30, 1857 , which position he took on March 20, 1858 Rede de literarum praesertim latinarum apud Romanus studiis, Nerva Trajano impatore took over . In that capacity, he mainly taught Latin and Greek antiquities and died after a few smaller works had flowed from his pen.

literature

  • Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1867, vol. 8, part 2, p. 1434 ( online , Dutch)
  • BJL de Geer: Levensschets van Jan Gerrit Hulleman. In: Handelingen der jaarlijksche algemeene vergadering van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden, owned on June 18, 1863, in het gebouw der Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen te Leiden. P. 135 ff. ( Online )
  • HJ Koenen: Levensbericht van JG Hulleman, Lid of the Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. In: Jaarboek of the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen. 1862, pp. 193-200 ( PDF Online )
  • Anthony Winkler Prins : Geïllustreerde Encyclopaedie. Uitgevers-maatschappy "Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1908, 3rd edition, 9th vol., P. 466

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Utrecht Birth Register
  2. University of Utrecht: Album studiosorum Academiae Rheno-traiectinae MDCXXXVI-MDCCCLXXXVI. Verlag JL Beijers / J. van Boekhoven, Utrecht, 1886, Sp. 295
  3. JG van Cittert-Eymers: Album Promotorum the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht 1815-1936 s album Promotorum the Veeartsenijkundige Hoogeschool 1918-1925. EJ Brill, Leiden, 1963, p. 37
  4. ^ CA Siegenbeek van Heukelom-Lamme: Album Scholasticum Academiae Lugduno-batave 1625-1940. Brill Archive, Leiden, 1941, p. 76 ( online reading sample ), see Annales Academiae Lugduno Batavae for the speech