Johann Adolf Karl van Heusde

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Johann Adolf Karl van Heusde

Johann Adolf Karl van Heusde (also: Joannes Adolphus Carolus van Heusde ; born May 26, 1812 in Utrecht , † November 16, 1878 in The Hague ) was a Dutch philologist and literary scholar.

Life

The son of the philosopher Philipp Wilhelm van Heusde (1778-1839), attended the Hieronymianum high school in his place of birth and from August 17, 1829 the University of Utrecht . He had devoted himself to philological studies and in 1834 took part in a philosophical competition at the University of Leiden with the question "de Guiliemo Ludovico Nassavio" , for which he received an honorable mention. After he had developed this work further, it appeared under the title Diatribe in Guilielmi Ludovici Nassavii uitam, ingenium, merita (Utrecht 1835). The following year on June 14th he received his doctorate from his father with the thesis M. Tullius Cicero φιλοπλάτων. Disquisitio de philosophiae Ciceronianae fonte praecipuo (Utrecht 1836). In 1839 he published a work that should also bring him a name abroad, the Disquisitio de L. Aelio Stilone, Ciceronis in Rhetoricis magistro, Rhetoricum ad Herennium, ut videtur, auctore. Inserta sunt Aelii Stilonis et Servii Claudii fragmenta . In 1840 van Heusde was appointed principal of the Latin school in Amersfoort , in which position he worked for seven years.

Initially occupied with editing the works of his deceased father, he published his Studia critica in C. Lucilium poetam collata (Utrecht) in 1842 , a work which, like the one about Stilo, shows a lot of diligence and a great deal of knowledge, but misses the critical processing of the material leaves. When the same was sharply criticized by Karl Friedrich Hermann , van Heusde defended himself in the Epistola ad Car. Fried. Hermannum de C. Lucilio (Utrecht 1844). When Petrus van Limburg Brouwer 's (1795–1847) death in 1847 made the professorship for classical languages ​​at the University of Groningen vacant, van Heusde received a call to the same. He took up his professorship on November 11, 1847 with a speech de studiorum propaodeuticorum usu nondum obsoleto . For eight years he read about Latin and Greek languages ​​and literature until he resigned his professorship in 1855 and from then until his death lived as a private citizen, mostly in The Hague. The fruits of his further work were an edition of the Agamemnon by Aeschylus (The Hague 1864) and smaller works. On April 13, 1849 he became a corresponding and on May 1, 1858 full member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences .

literature

  • Conrad Bursian: Annual report on the progress of classical antiquity. Verlag S. Calvary & Co, Berlin, 1879, 5th year, 1st department, Greek classics, p. 40

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Utrecht: Album studiosorum Academiae Rheno-traiectinae MDCXXXVI-MDCCCLXXXVI. Verlag JL Beijers / J. van Boekhoven, Utrecht, 1886, Sp. 281
  2. ^ Album Promotorum of the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht 1815-1936. EJ Brill, Leiden, 1936, p. 33 ( online )
  3. ↑ Online
  4. ↑ Online
  5. ↑ Göttinger Gelehrten Advertisements 1843, items 37-40, pp. 361-392
  6. ^ JG la Lau, EJ Brill: Anales Academici. Leiden 1854 ( online )
  7. ↑ Entry at KNAW
personal data
SURNAME Heusde, Johann Adolf Karl van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heusde, Joannes Adolphus Carolus van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch philologist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1878
Place of death The hague