Tiberius Hemsterhuis

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Tiberius Hemsterhuis

Tiberius Hemsterhuis (born January 2, 1685 in Groningen , † April 7, 1766 in Leiden ) was an important Dutch philologist .

Life

Hemsterhuis, the eldest son of the physician Francisus Hemsterhuis (1631-1705) and his wife Maria Gronwols (or Groenewout), was baptized on January 8th. After receiving his first instruction from his father, he attended the Latin school in his birthplace from 1696, where he was considered a child prodigy. On August 25, 1698 he enrolled at the University of Groningen . Here he studied philosophy with Johann I Bernoulli , the Greek language with Jacques Gousset (1635–1704) and the Hebrew antiquities and theology with Johannes Braun (1628–1708). After traveling through the Dutch provinces with his father in 1701, he moved to Leiden. Here, on February 1, 1702, he received the order to organize the oriental manuscripts of the university library there. In addition, he enrolled at the University of Leiden on September 21, 1702 in order to follow the lectures on theology and the oriental languages ​​given by Salomon van Til , Jakob Gronovius and Jacobus Perizonius .

On December 20, 1704 he was appointed professor of philosophy and mathematics at the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam . On January 24, 1705, he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree or, at that time, a doctor of philosophy at the University of Harderwijk . On August 26, 1717 he was appointed professor of the Greek language at the University of Franeker . However, Hemsterhuis stayed in Amsterdam for three years before he took over his professorship on March 6, 1720 with his inaugural speech de Graecae Linguae praestantia ex ingenio Graecorum et moribus probata (Franeker 1720). At the Frisian University he was rector in 1723/24, 1729/30 and 1738/39. At the resignation of the rector's council, the speeches Brevi quasi tabella proponam quo quis ingenio natus, quibus a natura animi dotibus instructus, colendis in humanioribus literis philologiaeque studio ornando plurimum et sibi et aliis sit profuturus (1724), de Paulo Apostolo (1730) and de Mathematum et Philosophiae studio cum Literis humanioribus coniungendis (1739).

After teaching Dutch history in 1726, he was given the title of Professor of Dutch History on March 13, 1738. On September 12, 1740 he was appointed professor of the Greek language and Dutch history at the University of Leiden, which task he took on on November 25 of the same year with the speech de Literarum Humaniorum studiis ad mores emendandos virtutisque cultum conferendis . In Leiden he was also rector of the Alma Mater in 1747/48 , which task he resigned with the speech de Statu Belgii . Due to his age, he was released from his lectures in Greek on February 1, 1757 and retired on October 18, 1765. Hemsterhuis was one of the most important humanists of the 18th century. He first gave the study of the Greek language a scientific basis and was the founder of the Dutch Hellenistic School, from which David Ruhnken , Jakob van Lennep , Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer and others emerged. Although he did not publish many of his own works, his value lies primarily in the training of formative future teachers from his school.

On October 1, 1716, Hemsterhuis married Cornelia Maria de Wilde (born March 26, 1685; † April 13, 1766), the daughter of the numismatist in Amsterdam Jacob de Wilde (born December 14, 1645 in The Hague; † March 21, 1721 in Amsterdam ) and his wife Hendrina Veen (born November 3, 1658 in Amsterdam, † March 11, 1702). The latter was the daughter of the physician Egbertus Veen (born February 26, 1630 in Amsterdam, † October 23, 1706 ibid) and his first wife Maria Arminius († November 2, 1690 in Amsterdam), the granddaughter of Jacob Arminius. The three sons Jacobus Hemsterhuis (* 1717 in Franeker, † died young in shipping), Frans Hemsterhuis and Tiberius (* June 15, 1724 in Franeker, † 1749 ibid) come from the marriage .

Works

The Burman criticism ascribed to Hemsterhuis and Verburg, Amsterdam 1734
  • Pollucis onomasticum . Amsterdam 1706, 2 vols.
  • Luciani colloquia selecta et Timon, Cebetis tabula , Menandri sententiae morales . Amsterdam 1708
  • Oratio funebris in memoriam camp. Vitringa f. Franeker 1723
  • Oratio funebris in Exequiis Viri praestantiss. Et Clariss. Johannis Cunradi Rungii. Franeker 1723
  • Programma voor de Lijkstatie en Redevoering, bij het overlijden van Guil. Coetier, Eloq, et Hist. Prof December 16, 1723
  • Chrestomathia Petronio-Burmanniana . Amsterdam 1734 (anonymous). Hilarious criticism of the Petronius edition by Pieter Burman, ascribed to Hemsterhuis and Isaak Verburg .
  • Aristophanis Plutus . Harlingen 1744

literature

  • Friedrich Theodor Rink: Tiberius Hemsterhuis and David Ruhnken. Biographical outline of her life. Göbbels and Unzer, Königsberg, 1801, ( online )
  • Jan Willem de Crane: Bijzonderheden, the Hemsterhuis family concerned. S. and J. Luchtman, Leiden, 1827, ( online )
  • Willem Boele Sophius Boeles: Frieslands Hoogeschool en het Rijks Athenaeum te Franeker . A. Meijer, Leeuwarden, 1889, Volume 2, p. 391
  • Ezechiël Slijper: HEMSTERHUIS (Tiberius) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 1. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 1068-1072 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1911, reprint unchanged).
  • Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1867, vol. 8, part 1, p. 537, ( online , Dutch)

Modern edition of David Ruhnken's eulogy for Tiberius Hemsterhuis

Web links

Commons : Tiberius Hemsterhuis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to his painting in the Leiden Senate Chamber, he was born on January 2nd, 1685 and not on February 1st, as has been reported (presumed transcription error), not even on January 9th.
personal data
SURNAME Hemsterhuis, Tiberius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch philologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1685
PLACE OF BIRTH Groningen
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1766
Place of death Suffer