Jan Hendrik Waszink

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Jan Hendrik Waszink (born October 17, 1908 in Renswoude ; † October 5, 1990 in Lugano ) was a Dutch Latinist and professor at the University of Leiden .

Life

Waszink studied Greek and Latin Philology in Leiden, where he received his doctorate in 1933 with Frederick Muller Jzn with a thesis on Tertullians De Anima . From 1946 until his retirement in 1974 he was Professor of Latin at the University of Leiden. Waszink was co-founder and until 1984 co-editor of the real dictionary for antiquity and Christianity . Together with Christine Mohrmann , he was the founder of the magazine Vigiliae Christianae , whose main editor he remained until 1988. Since 1950 he was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . In 1967 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy .

Fonts (selection)

  • Tertullian, De Anima. With introduction, translation and commentary. Amsterdam 1933.
  • The Greek tragedy in the judgment of the Romans and Christians. In: Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity . No. 7. Aschendorff Verlag , Münster 1964, pp. 139–148.
  • Bee and honey as symbols of the poet and poetry in Greco-Roman antiquity. Opladen 1974, ISBN 3-531-07196-3 .
  • The notions of the “extension of nature” in Greco-Roman antiquity and in early Christianity. In: Pietas, Festschrift for Bernhard Kötting. Edited by Ernst Dassmann and K. Suso Frank (= Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity. Supplementary Volume 8). Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1980, pp. 30-38.

literature

  • Wolfgang Speyer : Jan Hendrik Waszink. In: Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity . No. 34. Aschendorff Verlag , Münster 1991, pp. 5-11.
  • Norbert M. Borengässer: Correspondence between Theodor Klauser and Jan Hendrik Waszink 1946–1951. A historical contribution to the continuation of the RAC after World War II. In: Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity. No. 40. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1997, pp. 18-37.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Past Members: Jan Hendrik Waszink. Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, accessed August 17, 2020 .
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed August 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Waszink, Jan Hendrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Latinist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Renswoude
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1990
Place of death Lugano