Peter Wesseling - Professor at Utrecht

Peter Wesseling

Born 1692 at Steinfurt in Westphalia
Died 1764
Alias: 
Professor Wesseling
Biography: 

Professor at Utrecht University until his death in 1764.

He is best known for his editions of Diodorus (1746) and Herodotus (1763).1

Life with Boswell: 

Boswell possibly went to his lecture in Utrecht on September 20, 1763, before deciding to follow the lectures of Prof. Trotz instead.

Note 1: Sandys, John E. (1915). A Short History of Classical Scholarship, p. 281, Get it at AbeBooks.

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