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Petrus Mosellanus Protegensis (real name Peter Schade) (b. 1493 in
Bruttig, d. 19 April 1524 in
Leipzig
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) was a German humanist scholar. He is best known for the popular work on
rhetoric
Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...
, ''Tabulae de schematibus et tropis'',
[Online summar]
and his ''Paedologia''. He became professor at the
University of Leipzig
Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...
.
He gave the opening Latin oration at the 1519
Leipzig Disputation
The Leipzig Debate (german: Leipziger Disputation) was a theological disputation originally between Andreas Karlstadt, Martin Luther and Johann Eck. Karlstadt, the dean of the Wittenberg theological faculty, felt that he had to defend Luther ...
between
Johann Eck
Johann Maier von Eck (13 November 1486 – 13 February 1543), often anglicized as John Eck, was a German Catholic theologian, scholastic, prelate, and a pioneer of the counter-reformation who was among Martin Luther's most important inter ...
and
Martin Luther
Martin Luther (; ; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, and professor, and Order of Saint Augustine, Augustinian friar. He is the seminal figure of the Reformation, Protestant Refo ...
.
References
*Robert Francis Seybolt (1927), ''Renaissance Student Life. The Paedologia of Petrus Mosellanus, Translated from the Latin''
Notes
External links
Life and works of Petrus Mosellanus*
*Online scan
''Isocratis Oratio de bello fugiendo et pace servanda ad populum Atheniensem, Petro Mosellano interprete''
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1493 births
1524 deaths
16th-century German people
16th-century Latin-language writers
German Renaissance humanists
German classical scholars
Academic staff of Leipzig University
People from Cochem-Zell