Petrus Mosellanus

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Petrus Mosellanus Protegensis (real name Peter Schade) (1493 Bruttig-19 April1524 in Leipzig) was a German humanist scholar. He is best known for the popular work on rhetoric, Tabulae de schematibus et tropis^[1], and his Paedologia. He became professor at the University of Leipzig.

He gave the opening Latin oration at the 1519 Leipzig Disputation between Johann Eck and Martin Luther.

Since march 1st 2009 a new exclusive web site about life and works of Petrus Mosellanus is available.

[edit] References

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

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Online summary:[1].

[edit] External links

• Life and works of Petrus Mosellanus
• (German) BBK page
• Online scans[2]:
  • Isocratis Oratio de bello fugiendo et pace servanda ad populum Atheniensem, Petro Mosellano interprete
  • Paedologia
  • Tabulae in Erasmi Roter., libellum de duplici copia
  • Tabulae de schematibus
  • Tabulae in rhetorica de Philippi Melanchthonis