Jan van Leeuwen (Graecist)

Jan van Leeuwen

Jan van Leeuwen (born February 8, 1850 in Zegwaard , † July 21, 1924 in Melchtal ) was a Dutch Graecist .

Life

Jan van Leeuwen received his first education from his father, the pastor Jan van Leeuwen (born December 30, 1821 in Rotterdam, † December 4, 1892 in Amsterdam), and at the village school of his birthplace. In 1866 he became a student at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam , in 1869 he began his studies of literature at the University of Leiden , where he had already enrolled on April 3, 1867. It was here that Carel Gabriel Cobet and Willem Georg Pluijgers (born February 18, 1812 in Zwolle, † April 30, 1880 in Leiden) were his teachers. From 1875 he was a teacher of Greek at the grammar school in Amsterdam and received his doctorate on April 1, 1876 in Leiden in classical literature on the subject of De Aristophane Euripides censore .

On August 17, 1884, he was appointed professor of the Greek language, literature and history of Greek art at the University of Leiden, which task he took up on October 1 with the introductory speech De arte discendi . On April 27, 1890 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences , was a member of the Greek Academy and was knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion . He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Leiden University and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1904/05 . On December 18, 1914, he resigned his professorship and was retired on January 1, 1915. He spent the last years of his life in Switzerland.

Works (selection)

• Attic forecourt. 1880, 1894, 9th edition 1918 (with MB Mendes da Costa)
• Ajas. 1881
• De Aiacis Sophocles authentia et integritate. Utrecht 1881
• Philoctetes, metric vertaald. 1881, 1900, 1910
• Het Taaleigen of the poems by Homerus. 1884, 9th edition 1918, also in French and German
• De Acharniërs. 1885
• Homeri Odyssea. 1890/91; 2nd edition 1897/98; 1911; 2nd vol .; Edition minor 1908–1922 (with MB Mendes da Costa)
• Aristotelis qui fertur liber de Republica Atheniensium. 1891 (with H. van Herhaben)
• Enchiridium dictionis epicae. 1892-1894; 2nd vol
• Carmina latina. Post mortem poetae collegit filius. 1893
• Aristophanis Vespae c. prol. et comm. 1893
• Homeri Iliad. 1887/88; 2nd edition 1895/96; 1916; 2nd vol .; Edition minor 1906–1922
• Aristophanis Ranae c. prol. et comm. 1896
• Antigone, metric vertaald. 1897
• Aristophanis Nubes c. prol. et comm. 1898
• Aristophanis Equites c. prol. et comm. 1900
• Aristophanis Acharnenses c. prol. et comm. 1901
• Aristophanis Aves c. prol. et comm. 1902
• Aristophanis Lysistrata c. prol. et comm. 1903
• Aristophanis Thesmophoriazusae c. prol. et comm. 1904
• Aristophanis Plutus c. prol. et comm. 1904
• Aristophanis Cod. Ravennas. (Cod. Gr. Et lat IX). 1904
• De Boogschutter en de Weefster. Opmerkingen over de Odyssey. 1904
• Aristophanis Ecclesiazusae c. prol. et comm. 1905
• Bloemlezing uit Aristophanes. 1905
• Aristophanis Pax c. prol. et comm. 1906
• Prolegomena ad Aristophanem. 1908
• Menandri fabulae c. prol. et comm. 1908
• Een Dichterleven (Aristophanes). 1909
• Schoolwoordenboek op de poems by Homerus. 1909-1930
• Commentationes Homericae. 1911
• Homeri Iliad c. proleg. not. critic., commentariis exegeticis. 1912/13
• Homerus, Gestalten en tooneelen. 1913
• Homeri Odyssea c. proleg.not. critic; commentariis exegeticis, indicibus. 1917
• Enchiridium d. epic. Ed. altera also ta. 1918
• Menandri fabularum reliquiae c. proleg., not. crit., comm. exeget. 1919
• De Zanger van den Griekschen Riddertijd. 1924

literature

• Onze Hoogleeraren. Portraits and biographies. Nijgh & van Ditmar, Rotterdam, 1898, p. 52
• How is that? Vivat, Amsterdam, 1902, p. 280
• J. Würtheim: Levens report J. van Leeuwen. In: Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam 1925-1926. Amsterdam, pp. 1–44 ( Online PDF )
• Prof. Dr. J. van Leeuwen Jr. †. In: Nieuwe Leidsche Courant. of July 23, 1924, p. 1 ( online )

Web links

• van Leeuwen at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
• van Leeuwen in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden
• van Leeuwen at the digital library of Dutch literature