Peeter Heyns
Peeter Heyns (* 1537 in Antwerp , † February 1598 in Haarlem ) was a Flemish schoolmaster, poet, grammarian and geographer.
life and work
Heyns ran a school for girls from wealthy merchants in Antwerp. He taught successively in Antwerp, Cologne, Antwerp (1570–1585), Frankfurt am Main, Stade and from 1594 in Haarlem. Heyns wrote plays for foreign language lessons. His French grammar was reissued in 2006.
As a friend of the cartographer Abraham Ortelius , he prepared a (rhymed) Dutch and a French translation of his country description Theatrum orbis terrarum, published in 1570, and an excerpt.
Works
- Cort onderwijs van de eight deelen der Fransoischer talen [tot voorderinghe en profijt der Duytscher ioncheyt] (1571 en 1605), ed. by Els Ruijsendaal, Amsterdam / Münster 2006 [also Delft 1591]
- Spieghel der werelt , ghestelt in ryme door M. Peeter Heyns: Waer inne letterlyck ende figuerlyck de gheleghentheyt, natuere, ende aert aller landen claerlyck afghebeeldt ende wordt: niet min dienstelyck voor alle wandelaers, dan het heerlyck t'elij den student place Abraham huys nut ende noodich is, Antwerp 1577
- Le miroir du monde , reduict premierement en rithme brabaçonne, par MP Heyns, et maintenant tourné en prose françoise: auquel se représente clairement & au vif, tant par figures, que caractères, la vraye situation, nature et propriété de la terre universelle: redvicte corrigée et augmentée de plusieurs belles cartes, Antwerp 1579, Cambridge, Mass. 1990
- Epitome du théâtre du monde , Antwerp 1588
literature
- Maurits Sabbe, Peeter Heyns en de Nimfen uit the lauwerboom. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van het schoolwezen in de 16e eeuw , Antwerp 1929
- Els Ruijsendaal, Letter Konst. Het klassieke grammaticamodel en de oudste Nederlandse grammatica's , Amsterdam 1991
- Geert RW Dibbets, Une grammaire importante: le Cort Onderwys de Peeter Heyns (1571/1605), in: Grammaire et enseignement du français 1500-1700 , ed. by Jan De Clercq et al., Löwen / Paris 2000, pp. 289-300
- Hubert Meeus, Peeter Heyns, a “French Schoolmaster”, in: Grammaire et enseignement du français 1500-1700 , ed. by Jan De Clercq et al., Löwen / Paris 2000, pp. 301-316
- Pierre Swiggers, History of the grammars and linguistic teaching of Romance languages outside of Romania, in: Lexikon der Romance Linguistik (LRL), ed. by Günter Holtus et al., I, 1. History of the subject Romance studies, Tübingen 2001, pp. 506-517
Web links
- GRW Dibbets: Heyns, P. im Bio- en bibliographic lexicon van de neerlandistiek
- CERL Thesaurus , Authority Record
- Le miroir du monde, ou Epitome du Théâtre d´Abraham Ortelius , Amsterdam 1598 (online edition of the Mannheim University Library )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heyns, Peeter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heyns, Pierre; Heinsius, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Flemish schoolmaster, poet, grammarian and geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1537 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1598 |
| Place of death | Haarlem |