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Entry | Thucydidis Atheniensis Historiae de bello Peloponnesiaco, Libri octo, è Graeco …

Thucydidis Atheniensis Historiae de bello Peloponnesiaco, Libri octo, è Graeco sermone in Latinam lingua conversi, a Vito Winsemio patre, artis medicae doctore, et Graecae linguae Professore in inclyta Academia Witebergensi. Nunc denuò ad exemplum ab ipso authore ante obitum diligentissime recognitum, recusi et editi

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Content: Anthologies | Pericles’ Funeral Oration | The Debate on Mytilene | The Melian Dialogue

Veit Winsheim, or Winsemius, (1501-1570), humanist, physician, and educator. Born as Veit Örtel, Winsheim studied at the University of Wittenberg, where he became a close pupil and collaborator of Philipp Melanchthon. Initially a teacher of rhetoric, he later held the Greek professorship at Wittenberg, eventually earning a doctorate in medicine in 1550 and teaching medicine thereafter. He maintained a lasting intellectual relationship with Melanchthon, who entrusted him with revising his Latin syntax. Winsheim translated several Greek authors into German, including Theocritus, Sophocles, and Demosthenes. He also delivered a commemorative funeral oration for Melanchthon, which remains a valuable source for the reformer's biography. DB

A revision of Winsheim 1569 prepared by Winsheim and published by his son, also named Veit Winsheim.

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