Petrus Mosellanus

Petrus Mosellanus Protegensis (real name Peter Schade; 1493, Bruttig – 19 April 1524, Leipzig) was a German Renaissance 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.

References

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

Notes

External links

• Life and works of Petrus Mosellanus
• 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