Petrus Mosellanus

A memorial fountain in Bruttig-Fankel, Germany

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

References

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

Notes

1. Online summary:.

External links

• Life and works of Petrus Mosellanus
• Achim Krümmel (1993). "Mosellanus, Petrus, (eig. Peter Schade)". In Bautz, Traugott. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German) 6. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 169–171. ISBN 3-88309-044-1.
• Online scans :
  • 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