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
- Professor Wesseling
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.
Mentioned in
Peter Wesseling is mentioned in:
- Boswell in Holland 1763-1764
