Pieter Burman the Younger

Pieter Burmann ( born October 23, 1713 Amsterdam, † June 24, 1778 in Santhorst in Wassenaar ), the Younger ( Secundus ) called himself, to distinguish himself from his uncle Pieter Burmann the Elder, was a Dutch philologist.

He was educated by his uncle at Leiden University and then studied law at Carl Andreas Duker and Arnold Drakenborch at the University of Utrecht. 1735, he received appointed the chair of rhetoric and history at the University of Franeker, which was extended by the 1741 for poetry. The following year he left Franeker to Amsterdam, where he was Professor of History and Philology at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam. The following was the Professor of Poetry (1744), chief librarian (1752 ) and inspector of the gymnasium (1753 ). In 1771 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina. In 1777 he went into retirement.

In the nature and direction of his studies he remembers his famous uncle, but also in its violent disposition, which in disputes with his contemporaries, especially Saxe and Christian Adolph Klotz, involved him. He had extensive knowledge and had a great talent for Latin poetry. His most valuable works are:

• Anthologia veterum Latinorum Epigrammatum et Poematum (1759-1763)
• Aristophanis Comoediae November (1760 )
• Rhetorica.

He completed the Virgil ( 1767) and Claudian edition (1760 ), who had left his uncle unfinished, and began an edition of Propertius, one of his best work, which was printed at his death only half right. L. van Santen she completed and published them in 1780.