Jan Bloemendal
January Bloemendal (* 23. June 1961 ) is a Dutch classical scholar and Neo-Latin philologist and Niederlandist and theologian.
Life
After studying classical philology, Dutch studies and theology at the University of Utrecht , Bloemendal first worked as a teacher in Amersfoort . In 1997 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Daniel Heinsius ' tragedy Auriacus, sive Libertas saucia ( Oranje or wounded freedom ). Between 2000 and 2005 he worked at the Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (Huygens ING) on an annotated edition of the Poeticae Institutiones by Gerardus Johannes Vossius . From May 2004 he was project manager of the research project Latin and Vernacular Cultures funded by the Nederlandse Organizatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek at the Institut Griekse en Latijnse Talen en Culturen at the Universiteit van Amsterdam . Theater and public opinion in the Netherlands ca 1510-1625 . From 2006 to 2012 he held a professorship for neolatinism there. He then was a Senior Researcher at Huygens ING. Since the winter semester 2017/18 he has been employed as a private lecturer at the Ruhr University Bochum.
Work areas
Bloemendal works on Latin literature of the early modern period and in particular on the theater , poetics and reception of this period. He is also the secretary of the Dutch Erasmus edition.
Fonts (selection)
- (Ed.): Daniel Heinsius, Auriacus, sive Libertas saucia (1602). Editie met vertaling, inleiding en commentaar. Voorthuizen 1997 (= Diss. Utrecht).
- with Jan W. Steenbeek (ed.): Daniel Heinsius, De verachting van de dood - De contemptu mortis. Vertaling by Jan Bloemendal and Jan W. Steenbeek. Text, adding a commentary by Jan Bloemendal. Uitgeverij Prometheus / Bert Bakker, Amsterdam 2005.
- with Edwin Rabbie (Ed.): Gerardus Johannes Vossius, Poeticarum institutionum libri tres / Three Books on Poetics. Leiden, 2010.
- with Arjan C. van Dixhoorn and Elsa Strietman (eds.): Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1400–1650. Leiden 2011.
- with Howard Norland (Ed.): Neo-Latin Drama and Theater in Early Modern Europe. Leiden 2012.
- with Philip Ford and Charles Fantazzi (eds.): Brill's Encyclopedia of the Neo-Latin World. Leiden 2014.
- (Ed.): Bilingual Europe: Latin and Vernacular Cultures - Examples of Bilingualism and Multilingualism c. 1300-1800 . Leiden 2015.
- (Ed.): Erasmus, In evangelium Lucae paraphrasis. Leiden 2018.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jan Bloemendal in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Personal page at the Huygens Institute (with photography and bibliography)
- Uitgeverij Florivallis Bloemendal's own publishing house specializing in neo-Latin literature
- Personal page on Academia.edu
- Over toneel en het openbare debat in de 16e eeuw ( On theater and public debate in the 16th century ), public lecture in Amersfoort, YouTube video, uploaded on February 13, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bloemendal, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Florivallis (name of the publisher, means Bloemendal) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch classical and neo-Latin philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1961 |