Petrus Mosellanus Protegensis (real name Peter Schade) (b. 1493 in Bruttig, d. 19 April 1524 in

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) was a German humanist scholar. He is best known for the popular work on

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, ''Tabulae de schematibus et tropis'',Online summar

and his ''Paedologia''. He became professor at the

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. He gave the opening Latin oration at the 1519

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between

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and

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References

*Robert Francis Seybolt (1927), ''Renaissance Student Life. The Paedologia of Petrus Mosellanus, Translated from the Latin''

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External links

Life and works of Petrus Mosellanus
* *Online scan

''Isocratis Oratio de bello fugiendo et pace servanda ad populum Atheniensem, Petro Mosellano interprete''

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mosellanus, Petrus 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