Petrus Wesseling

Petrus Wesseling

Petrus Wesseling (also: Peter Wesselingius, Weßeling ; * January 7, 1692 in Burgsteinfurt , † November 9, 1764 in Utrecht ) was a German philologist and legal scholar.

Life

The son of the wealthy citizen Gerhard Wesseling and Anna Reiners had already lost his father when he was ten years old. He therefore came to his uncle in Emden , where he attended Latin school and later attended the Arnoldinum grammar school in Steinfurt . Here he devoted himself to an intensive study of languages ​​and dealt with theological topics. His most important teachers at that time were August Houck (1677 / 79–1716), Werner Justinus Pagenstecher (1671–1742) and Arnold Visch (also: Fischer, –1717). After his final disputation theologica de petra in Matthaei evang. XVI. Had held 18 , he enrolled on October 27, 1712 at the University of Leiden , where he spent two years the lectures of Jakob Gronovius , Jacobus Perizonius , Johannes van Marck (1656-1731), Salomo van Til (1643-1713) and Franciscus Fabricius (1663-1738) visited.

As a theology student, he moved to Franeker University on September 8, 1714 . Here Campegius Vitringa the Elder , Ruardus Andala (1665–1727) and Albert Schultens (1686–1750) were his formative teachers. After completing his training, he held the position of court master and was accepted as a candidate for the ministry in Zealand. In 1718 he went to the grammar school in Middelburg as vice rector and in 1720 he took over the rectorate of the school in Deventer . On March 12, 1723, the curators of the Franek University of Applied Sciences appointed him professor of history and rhetoric, which he assumed on March 22, 1724 with the speech de origine pontoficiae dominationis . In 1732/33, as rector of the Alma Mater in Franeker, he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university, for which he wrote the speech de vitiis et defectibus historiae ecclesiasticae when the rector's office resigned . On March 7, 1735, the curators of the University of Utrecht appointed him professor of rhetoric, history and the Greek language, which he took on on June 13, 1735 with the speech pro historiis .

Further attempts to pull him to Franeker and Leiden were not made. Instead he received on June 27, 1746 another appointment to professor of natural law and Roman law. For this purpose he received his doctorate under Jacobus Voorda on September 13, 1746, and took up the professorship assigned to him on September 26, 1746 with the speech De vera civitas . After Arnold Drakenborch's death in 1749, he also took on the role of university librarian . In 1736/37 and 1749/50, as rector of the Alma Mater, he also took part in the organizational tasks of the Utrecht University. Wesseling was considered one of the most important philologists and critics of his time, who produced a large number of respected works and was a member of many learned societies.

From his marriage to Anna Apollonia († 1757), daughter of Hermann Bonnet, came a son Johannes († 7 February 1750 in Franeker) and the two daughters Cornelia Elizabeth († 1792) and Anna Apollonia, married. Gisbert Bonnet .

Works

• Oratio habita ad IV Non. May 1726 ad seren. principem Wilhelmum Carolum, Henricum Frisonem cum studiorum causa Leovardia Franequeram migrasset. Franeker 1726
• Observationum variarum libri duo. Amsterdam 1727
• Ed. Simsonii chronicon historiam catholicam complectens ex recensione et cum animado. PW Leiden 1729. Amsterdam 1752
• Probabilium liber singularis, in quo praeter alia, insunt vindiciae verborum Johannis, et Deus erat verbum. Franeker 1731
• Oratio funebris in memoriam Sicconis a Goslinga Kal. Nov. a 1751 dicta. Franeker 1732
• Wilhelmus Car. Henr. Friso Sponsus. Carmen recitatum et editum. Franeker 1734
• Diatribe de Judaeorum archontibus ad inscriptionem Berenicensem et dissertatio de evangeliis iussu Imp. Anastasii non emendatis in Victorem Tunnunensem. Utrecht 1758
• Sam. Petiti leges Atticae cum animadvers. et praefat. P. Wesselingii in Jurisprudentiae Rome. et Att. Tomo III. Leiden 1741
• Diodori Siculi Bibliotheca historica. Amsterdam 1745
• Oratio in natal Wilhelmi comitis Burani. Utrecht 1748
• Episiola ad v. cl.Venemam de Aquilae in scriptis Philonis Judaei fragmentis et Platonis epistola. XIII cet. Utrecht 1748
• Oratio in obitum seren. principis Wilhelmi CH Frisonis. Utrecht 1752
• Dissertation Herodotea ad Tib. Hemsterhusium. Utrecht 1758
• Oratio in obitum celsiss. principis Annae, faeder. Belg. gubernatricis. Utrecht 1759
• Herodoti Histor. libri IX. Editionem curavit et suas itemque LC Valckenaerii notas adi. PW Amsterdam 1763

literature

• Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching : Historical-literary handbook of famous and memorable people who lived in the eighteenth century, or historical, bio- and bibliographical news from famous and memorable monarchs, princes, generals, statesmen and scholars in all sciences, artists of all kinds , Merchants, mechanics, and other interesting people beyderley sex. Verlag Schwickert, Leipzig, 1813, 16 vol., 1st section, (Wateau-Whycherley), p. 268 f.
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Publisher Gerhard Fleischer d. J., 1816, vol. 15, p. 46 ( online )
• Johann Christoph Strodtmann; Ferdinand Stosch: The new scholarly Europe. Vol. 4, pp. 881-909 ( online ), Vol. 9, p. 99 ( online ) and Vol. 20, pp. 1051-1055
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 18, vol. 20, p. 123 ( online , Dutch)
• WBS Boeles: Frieslands Hoogeschool en het Rijks Athenaeum te Franeker. Publisher H. Kuipers u. JG Wester, Leeuwarden, 1889, vol. 2, 2nd issue, p. 407

Web links

• Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae