Famous People with Name Petrus

Petrus Adrianus Wernink            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Petrus Adrianus Wernink: was a Dutch sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was a crew member of the Dutch boat Oranje, which won the gold medal in the 6½ metre class (1919 rating).

Petrus Adrianus Kerstens            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Petrus Adrianus Kerstens: was a Dutch politician.

Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder: was a Dutch expert in the Old Javanese language. He came from Utrecht and was associated with the Society of Jesus by 1925. He worked at Leiden University in the 1930s. His first work appeared in 1930 and he continued to write into the 1990s. He lived in Yogyakarta and was interred in the Jesuit necropolis at Muntilan, Java.

Petrus De Domarto            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Petrus De Domarto: was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a contemporary and probable acquaintance of Ockeghem, and was the composer of at least one of the first unified mass cycles to be written in continental Europe.Domarto's two mass settings, the Missa Spiritus almus and a Missa sine nomine, were famous at the time. The latter of the two may have been one of the earliest cyclic masses composed on the continent, most likely in the 1440s, and imitates some features of contemporary English composers such as Leonel Power.[1] The Missa Spiritus almus, likely dating from the 1450s, is a cantus-firmus mass, with the tune always in the tenor, but with a changing rhythmic profile as it changes mensuration throughout the piece.

Petrus Aureolus            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Petrus Aureolus: was a scholastic philosopher and theologian. We know little of his life before 1312. After this time, he taught at the Franciscan convent in Bologna, then at the convent in Toulouse, around 1314. He went to Paris in 1316 in order to qualify for his doctorate, where he read the Sentences. In 1318 he was appointed master of theology at the University of Paris. In 1321, he was appointed by his mentor, Pope John XXII, to the position of Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence, but died not long after in 1322.

Sebastian Petrus            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Sebastian Petrus: a Romanian football player, currently under contract at FCU Politehnica Timisoara. He plays on the right wing, as either a defender or a midfielder.