Peter Wesseling - Professor at Utrecht
Biography
Birth: 1692 at Steinfurt in Westphalia
Death: 1764
Professor at Utrecht University until his death in 1764.
He is best known for his editions of Diodorus (1746) and Herodotus (1763).1
Also known as
Life with James Boswell
Boswell possibly went to his lecture in Utrecht on September 20, 1763, before deciding to follow the lectures of Prof. Trotz instead.
Notes
Note 1: Sandys, John E. (1915). A Short History of Classical Scholarship, p. 281, Get it at AbeBooks.
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