Editing Perizonius

{{Short description|Dutch classical scholar (1651–1715)}}
[[Image:Jakob Perizonius - Imagines philologorum.jpg|thumb|Perizonius]]

'''Perizonius''' (or '''Accinctus''') was the name{{Clarify|date=February 2023}} of '''Jakob Voorbroek''' (26 October 1651 &ndash; 6 April 1715), a [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[classical scholar]], who was born at [[Appingedam]] in [[Groningen (province)|Groningen]].

He was the son of Anton Perizonius (1626–1672), the author of a once well-known treatise, ''De ratione studii theologici''. Having studied at the [[Utrecht University|University of Utrecht]], he was appointed in 1682 to the chair of eloquence and history at [[Franeker]] through the influence of [[Johann Georg Graevius|J. G. Graevius]] and [[Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder|Nikolaes Heinsius]]. In 1693 he was promoted to the corresponding chair at [[Leiden]], where he died on 6 April 1715.

The numerous works of Perizonius entitle him to a high place among the scholars of his age. Special interest attaches to his edition of the ''Minerva sive de causis linguae latinae'' (Salamanca: Renaut, 1587) of [[Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas]], ''aka'' El Brocense, (ed. [[C. L. Bauer]], 1793–1801), one of the last developments of the study of [[Latin grammar]] in its pre-scientific stage, when the phenomena of language were still regarded as for the most part disconnected, conventional or fortuitous.

Mention should also be made of his ''Animadversiones historicae'' (1685), which may be said to have laid the foundations of historical criticism, and of his treatises on the [[Roman Republic]], alluded to by [[Barthold Georg Niebuhr|Niebuhr]] as marking the beginning of the new era of historical study with which his own name is associated.

== Collection and heritage ==
[[File:45v and 46r Leiden I Maccabees.jpg|thumb|Manuscript from the Collection Perizonius (Leiden University Library, PER F 17)]]
Perizonius was a collector of rare books and manuscripts. To the [[Leiden University Library]] he bequeathed 134 manuscripts, one painting, many printed books and a legacy to buy new books. The manuscripts are kept separate as the Collection Perizonius in the library. One of the famous manuscripts in the Perizonius collection is a manuscript, probably from the [[Abbey of Saint Gall]] dating from the 10th century. It includes ''[[1 Maccabees]]'' and the fourth book of ''Epitoma Rei Militaris'' by [[Vegetius]]. The manuscript includes many richly decorated pages depicting the historic invasion of Germany by the Hungarians. The digital version of MS PER F 17 is available on Leiden's Digital Collections. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:850585  |title=Digital version of Composite manuscript, two parts (Latin): 1. (ff. 1r-65v) Old Testament: 1 Maccabees, and other text(s). - 2. (ff. 150-211) Index and vocabulary on Vegetius' Epitoma rei militaris, and other text(s), PER F 17 |publisher=[[Leiden University Libraries]] |access-date=2024-04-11}}</ref>

==References==
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*{{EB1911|wstitle=Perizonius|volume=21|page=172}}
*The article on Perizonius in Van der Aa's ''Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden'' contains full biographical and bibliographical particulars; see also [[Friedrich August Eckstein|F. A. Eckstein]] in [[Ersch]] and [[Johann Gottfried Gruber|Gruber]]'s ''Allgemeine Encyklopädie''.

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