Pieter Burman the Younger

Born at Amsterdam, he was brought up by his uncle in Leiden, and afterwards studied law and philology under CA 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.

He was subsequently professor of poetry (1744), general librarian (1752), and inspector of the gymnasium (1753).

[1] He resembled his more famous uncle in the manner and direction of his studies, and in his violent disposition, which involved him in quarrels with contemporaries, notably Saxe and Christian Adolph Klotz.

His most valuable works are: He completed the editions of Virgil (1767)[2] and Claudian (1760), which had been left unfinished by his uncle, and commenced an edition of Propertius, one of his best works, which was only half printed at the time of his death.