About Pieter Helbert Damsté
Lived 1860 – 1943 (aged 82). Pieter Helbert Damsté was a Dutch poet, university teacher, classical scholar, latinist, rower and classical philologist.
Pieter Helbert Damsté (August 10, 1860 – February 5, 1943) was a Dutch classical scholar.
Biography Damsté was born in Wilsum as the son of preacher Barteld Roelof Damsté and Richardina Jacoba Gesina Gallé. His 1885 dissertation was called Adversaria critica ad C. Valerii Flacci Argonautica. He taught Latin at Utrecht University.
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Dutch classical scholar (1860-1943)
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Pieter Helbert Damsté was born on 10 August 1860 in Wilsum.
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Pieter Helbert Damsté died on 5 February 1943 in Utrecht.
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Pieter Helbert Damsté was a poet, university teacher, classical scholar, latinist, rower and classical philologist.
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Pieter Helbert Damsté was Dutch.
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