Petrus Mosellanus Explained

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:http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Primary%20Texts/Mosellanus.htm.

External links

• Life and works of Petrus Mosellanus
  • Online scans http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/me.html:
  • 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