Talk:Pieter Burman the Elder

Name Spelling
At the moment "Pieter Burman" redirects to the "Pieter Burmann" disambiguation page. But: i) competent classical scholars spell the name Burman (incompetent ones spell it Burmann) ii) -man is the normal Dutch ending iii) historians of classical scholarship call him and his nephew Burman, e. g. J. E. Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship II (Cambridge 1908) 443-4, 455; R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from 1300 to 1850 (Oxford: OUP, 1976) 162; Gudemans Imagines Philologicae, the ultimate source of the photos here, I imagine iv) For the younger Burman, the Album Academicum van het Athenaeum Illustre en van de Universiteit van Amsterdam  (Amsterdam 1913) 14 (and tables III, 2 and IV, 1) give his name as Burman It looks like Burmann is a mistranslation of the Latin Burmannus, influenced perhaps by the dominance of German scholarship in the field. Ideally Burman should then be the name of the article and Burmann the redirect —Preceding unsigned comment added by N p holmes (talk • contribs) 06:52, 17 December 2007 (UTC)