FLODER,J. Johannis Floderi, in Athenaeo Upsaliensi olim Graecar. Litterar. Professoris et Reg. Acad. Litt. Hum. Stockh. membri, Opuscula oratoria et poëtica. Uppsala (Upsaliae), Typis viduae directoris Joh. Edman, 1791. (VIII),419,(12),(1 blank) p. Contemporary wrappers 21 cm (Note: The historian of classical philology John Edwin Sandys did not think much of Swedish philology up to 1800. Not a few of the Swedish scholars 'were in the habit of writing Greek compositions, either in prose or in elegiac or in hexameter verse, but they very rarely produced any editions of Greek authors, and such authors as they happened to edit were seldom of special importance'. They only deserve credit for continuing to tend and cultivate 'in that northern clime the exotic plant of Greek learning'. (Sandys 3,348) One of the few scholars Sandys mentions is Johannes Floderus, 1721-1789, 'who was also an able Latin orator, who took a prominent part in no less than 108 Latin disputations, and left behind him a large number of 'Opuscula oratoria et poetica', posthumously published in 1791'. Floderus was professor of Greek at the University of Uppsala from 1762. The 'Conspectus voluminis' offers the following parts: 1, Oratio Inaug. ad Prof. Gr. L. 1762; 2, Oratiuncula primae lect. publ. praemissa 1762; 3, Elogium funebre Divo Adolpho Friderico 1771; 4, Parentalia N. Rosén a Rosenstein facta 1775. 5, Officium Parent. J. Ihre praestitum 1781; 6, Oratio Parent. in memor. C. Aurivilii 1786; 7, Laudatio Funebris C.F. Mennander 1787; 8, Oratio, quum Rect. Acad. deponeret 1770; 9, Oration, quum Rect. Acad. se abdicaret 1778; 10, Oratio in Promot. Philosoph. 1785; 11, Programmata; 12 Carminum libri duo (98 p.); 13, Index (158) Dissertationum auctoris. At the end is a 11 page list of subscribers) (Collation: pi4, A-2D8 (2D8 verso blank)) (Photographs on request)
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