The New International Encyclopædia/Burmann, Peter

BURMANN, bo͞or′mȧn, Peter (1668-1741). A Dutch philologist. He was born in Utrecht, and studied law at the universities of Utrecht and Leyden, taking his degree in 1688. After practicing as an advocate for some years, he was appointed professor of history and rhetoric, and later became professor of Greek in Utrecht. In 1715 he removed to the University of Leyden. His chief works are editions of the Latin classics—Petronius, Velleius Paterculus, Quintilian, Valerius Flaccus, Phædrus, Ovid, the Poëtæ Minores, Suetonius, Lucan, Horace, and Vergil. They are characterized less by critical acumen than by learning and fullness.