The son, on the advice of the rector of the Latin schools, added a Latin ending to his name and called himself from then on Aeneae, was initially prepared to become a teacher, visiting the Latin schools in Leeuwarden and the college of Franeker.
His father began teaching him mathematics, but the young Pieter soon outpaced his father, and the mathematician Henricus Aeneae continued his education.
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff | Henricus Hondius | Johannes Henricus Gerardus Jansen | Janus Henricus Donker Curtius | Ioannes Henricus Meibomius | Henricus Aeneae |