Petrus Mosellanus

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, 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.

A memorial fountain in Bruttig-Fankel, Germany

References

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

External links

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