Herman Tollius
Herman Tollius ( born February 28, 1742 in Breda, † April 29, 1822 in Leiden ) was a Dutch philologist, historian and jurist.
Life
The son of a lawyer and Philip John Tollius († 1746 ) and his wife Bertha Stuerman had lost his father at the age of four years. His mother's brother, Jan Jacob Stuerman to himself and her mother attended and provided for the education. At the age of ten years Tollius and his mother moved to Leiden, where he attended the Latin School. Because of his talent, he was able to enroll as a student of literature and law at the University of Leiden at the age of thirteen on March 7, 1755. On September 4, 1758, he completed his studies at the Latin School, and attended the law lectures at Johann Conrad Rücker ( 1691 to 1778 ) and Gerlach Scheltinga ( 1708-1765 ). In the classical languages Tiberius Hemsterhuis and David Ruhnken were his teachers. In mathematics made him Pieter van Musschenbroek and John Lulofs ( 1711-1768 ).
In 1763 he had his degree, with took place on June 3, 1763 Doctor of rights ended and became a lawyer in The Hague. About 1766 he was given the professorship of history, rhetoric, and Greek language at the University of Harderwijk. He also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was 1770 president of the Alma Mater. 1776, after the death of his wife, he resigned the professorship, to undertake a study tour to France. In Paris, he was offered, replacing Burmann Pieter the Younger, the high school professor of History and Philology at the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam, which he took up on 27 September 1777. During that time, he had written several works in Latin and Low German and published poems. This position he resigned on 5 October 1784 to contact a teacher of the Prince of Orange-Nassau in the services of the Stadtholder William V of Orange-Nassau on 28 February in 1785. He accompanied the Crown Prince on an educational trip to Germany and the end of 1789 at the University of Leiden.
And the governor was expelled in 1795 by the French and fled to England, to Tollius went to Osnabrück and later to Brunswick. 1798 to 1809 he managed in Germany as Privy acquired by Wilhelm areas in Poland. During that time he stood with Willem Bilderdijk in correspondence, with whom he exchanged on literature and told him about the living conditions in the Netherlands. At the request of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte in 1809, he returned back to Holland, where he was given at Leiden University professor of statistics, diplomacy and Dutch history. In 1812 he moved to the Chair of Greek language and in 1814 he became Professor of the Latin language. On October 16th was his retirement and he died in 1822 in Leiden. Tollius was a knight of the Order of the Nederlandse Leeuw ( German: Dutch Lion ). He was also the founder in 1766 of the Society for Dutch literature in Leiden.
Family
Tollius was married three times. His first marriage, he was received with Johanna Bernardina Burnet. The marriage remained childless. From his second marriage with Johanna Schoorn Two daughters were born. The daughter from that marriage Bartha Hermina Bennet Tollius ( born May 21, 1780 in Amsterdam, ibid † December 14, 1847 ), published under the title Onze Uitlandigheid a report on the time of the family in Germany. After the death of his second wife he married Elizabeth Suzanna Detmers, which marriage was also childless.
Works (selection)
- Oratio qua demonstratvr etiamnvm svperesse in Graecis Literis ex QVO graviores disciplinae decvs et praesidivm capere possint. Harderwijk, 1767 ( Online)
- Oratio per Virorum Illustrium gloria from historiarum interprete non temere obscuranda. 1770 ( Rector's Address )
- Nederduitse spraakkunst. 1773
- Oratio, Gerardo de Johanne Vossio, Grammatico perfecto. Amsterdam 1778
- State Competent Geschriften, concerned eenige gewigtige gebeurtenissen in de Nederlanden Vereenigde, gedurende de jaren MDCCLXXXVI, MDCCLXXXVII, en vervolgens. The Hague 1814, 3 volumes
- Oratio de fine statistices, quae vocatur, hodiernae. Leiden 1809 ( Online)
- ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ. - Apollonii Sophistae Lexicon graecum Iliadis et Odysseae. Leiden 1788 ( Online)