Jean-Robert Smeets

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Jean-Robert Smeets (born February 20, 1916 in Maastricht ; † November 2, 2003 in Mheer, Margraten ) was a Dutch Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Smeets studied in Groningen (with Kornelis Sneyders de Vogel ), Paris and Besançon. From 1941 he was a high school teacher in Maastricht and Groningen , and also a lecturer at the Horticultural School. In 1953 he received his doctorate from the University of Groningen with an edition of La Chevalerie de Judas Macabé (Assen 1955) and was there lecturer in Old French , Old Spanish and Vulgar Latin . Louis Kukenheim brought him to the University of Leiden in 1960 , where he taught as a professor until 1980. He founded the “Equipe de Leyde” to research the medieval Bibles.

Smeets was Chevalier of the Legion of Honor (1983).

Further works (editor)

  • La Bible de Macé de La Charité, Leiden 1964
  • La Bible de Macé de La Charité I: Genèse, Exode, Leiden 1967
  • (with J. Bierbrauer and E. Tilemans) Le français agricole, The Hague 1959–1961
  • La Bible de Jehan Malkaraume, 2 vol., Assen 1978
  • La Bible de Macé de La Charité V: Cantique des Cantiques, Leiden 1982
  • Les fragments de la Chevalerie de Judas Macchabée de Gautier de Belleperche contenu dans le ms. Garret 125 de la Princeton University Library, Leiden 1985
  • La Bible de Macé de La Charité VI: Évangiles, Actes des Apostres, Leiden 1986
  • La chevalerie de Judas Macchabee de Gautier de Belleperche (et de Pieros du Riés): (Ms. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Hamilton 363), Assen 1991
  • La Chevalerie de Judas Macchabée de Gautier de Belleperche, in: Revue de Linguistique romane 60, 1996, pp. 335-402

literature

  • Mélanges de Linguistique, de Littérature et de Philologie médiévales offerts à JR Smeets, ed. by QIM Mok u. a., Leiden 1982

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personal data
SURNAME Smeets, Jean-Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smeets, JR; Smeets, Jean R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Maastricht
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 2003
Place of death Mheer, Margraten