Oudendorp, Franz von
, a famous Dutch classical scholar, was born July 31, 1696, at Leyden, in the University of
which place he received his training. In 1724 he was made Rector of the school at Nymegen, and
in 1726 of the more important school at Haarlem, leaving the latter to accept a chair at
Leyden as Professor of Eloquence and History
(1740). He died Feb. 14, 1761.
Oudendorp was the last of the old school of Latinists which had flourished at Leyden from
the time of
Gronovius (q.v.), and his commentaries
follow the stereotyped methods of his predecessors. He published an
Oratio de
Litterariis C. Iulii Caesaris Studiis (inaugural address, Leyden, 1740), and
editions of the following classics: Iulius Obsequens
(Leyden, 1720); Lucan
(Leyden, 1728); Frontinus
(Leyden, 1731; 2d ed. 1779); Caesar
(Leyden, 1737); and Suetonius
(2 vols. Leyden, 1751). After his
death appeared his edition of Apuleius in 3 vols.
(1785-1823).
