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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.


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Peter Wesseling is mentioned in:

  • Boswell in Holland 1763-1764

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On his Grand Tour of Europe in 1764-1765, Boswell visited and befriended the famous philosophers Jean-Jacques Rosseau and François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), and back in Edinburgh he was a personal friend of David Hume.

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