Education
Born at Amsterdam, he was brought up by his uncle in Leiden, and afterwards studied law and philology under California Duker and Arnold von Drakenborch at Utrecht.
Born at Amsterdam, he was brought up by his uncle in Leiden, and afterwards studied law and philology under California Duker and Arnold von Drakenborch at Utrecht.
In 1735 he was appointed professor of eloquence and history at Franeker, with which the chair of poetry was combined in 1741. In the following year he left Franeker for Amsterdam to become professor of history and philology at the Athenaeum. He was subsequently professor of poetry (1744), general librarian (1752), and inspector of the gymnasium (1753).
In 1777 he retired, and died on 24 June 1778 at Santhorst, near Wassenaar.
He was a man of extensive learning, and had a great talent for Latin poetry. His most valuable works are:
Anthologia Veterum Latinorum Epigrammatum et Poematum (1759-1763)
Aristophanis comoediae Novem (1760)
Rhetorica.
lieutenant was completed by L. van Santen and published in 1780. Bibliography
Burman, Pieter (1746), Burman, Pieter, educated, P. Virgilii Maronis Opera, cum Integris & Emendatioribus Commentariis Servii, Philargyrii, Pierii, Accedunt Fulvii Ursini, Georgii Fabricii, Francisci Nansii, John
Musonii, Tanaquilli Fabri, et Aliorum, ac Praecipue Nicolai Heinsii Notae Nunc Primum Editae, Volumes
I, II, III, & IV, Amsterdam: Jacob Wetsten.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
