Pieter Burman the Younger
Dutch lawyer and philologist
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- Doctorate Law Leiden University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Pieter Burman , also known as Peter or Pieter Burmann and distinguished from his uncle as , was a Dutch philologist. Life Born at Amsterdam, he was brought up by his uncle in Leiden, and afterwards studied law and philology under CA Duker and Arnold von Drakenborch at Utrecht. In 1735 he was appointed professor of eloquence and history at Franeker, with which the chair of poetry was combined in 1741. In the following year he left Franeker for Amsterdam to become professor of history and philology at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam. He was subsequently professor of poetry , general librarian , and inspector of the gymnasium . In 1777 he retired, and died on 24 June 1778 at Santhorst, near Wassenaar.
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