Joseph Jacobus van den Besselaar

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Joseph Jacobus van den Besselaar (born March 17, 1916 in Valkenswaard , † June 20, 1991 in Nijmegen ) was a Dutch classical philologist, Romance scholar and Lusitanist who temporarily taught in Brazil.

JJ van den Besselaar studied classical philology at the University of Nijmegen from 1934 to 1940 . Then he worked as a high school teacher. In 1945 he became Senator en zijn Variae with the work Cassiodorus . De hoveling. De diplomatieke oorkonden der Variae. De rhetor is doing his doctorate. In 1949 he emigrated to Brazil and was Professor of Ancient History at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo from 1952 to 1958 and at the State University in Assis (São Paulo) from 1958 to 1960 . He went back to the Netherlands and taught Romance studies (Portuguese) at the University of Nijmegen from 1961, from 1967 as "Lector", from 1979 to 1984 as professor.

Publications (selection)

  • De humanist vorming en het wetsontwerp-Bolkestein. Vier beschouwingen over het moderne gymnasium , Nijmegen / Utrecht 1945
  • Cassiodorus Senator. Leven en werken van een staatsman en monnik uit de zesde eeuw , Haarlem 1950 (= dissertation)
  • As interpretações da história através dos séculos , 2 vols., São Paulo 1957–1958
  • Introdução aos estudos históricos , São Paulo 1958, 1968
  • O progressismo de Sêneca , Assis 1960
  • (Ed.) Keizer Claudius, mens en god. De Apocolocyntosis van Seneca en other teksten uit Griekse en Latijnse schrijvers die trekking hebben op het leven en de dood van Keizer Claudius (41–54) , Zwolle 1961
  • (Translator) Ariano Suassuna : Het testament van de hond , Bussum 1964
  • Brazilië. Ontwakende reus in de tropen , Meppel 1967 (German: Brazil. Claim and Reality , Wiesbaden 1970, 1973)
  • Het Portugees van Brazilië met aanvullingen voor het Europese Portugees , s'Hertogenbosch 1963, 1964, 1970, 1976, 1983
  • (Ed.) António de Vieira : História do futuro . Aschendorff, Münster 1976
    • Vol. 1: Bibliografía, introdução e texto .
    • Vol. 2: Comentário .
    • New edition under the title Livro anteprimeiro da História do futuro , Lisbon 1983.
  • Antonio Vieira. O homen. A obra. As ideias , Lisbon 1981 (António Vieira. Profecia e polêmica, Rio de Janeiro 2002)
  • Maurício de Nassau, esse desconhecido . Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 1982 (via Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen , Governor General of Dutch Brazil)
  • O sebastianismo . História sumária , Lisbon 1987

literature

  • Forum Litterarum. Miscelânea de estudos literários, linguísticos e históricos oferecida a JJ van den Besselaar , ed. by Hans Bots and Maximilian PAM Kerkhof, Amsterdam 1984.

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personal data
SURNAME Besselaar, Joseph Jacobus van den
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Besselaar, José van den; Besselaar, JJ van den; Besselaar, Joseph J. van den
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch classical philologist, Romanist and Lusitanist who temporarily taught in Brazil
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Valkenswaard
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1991
Place of death Nijmegen