Jozef IJsewijn

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Jozef IJsewijn at the founding congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies in 1973.

Jozef Antoon Maria Karol IJsewijn (born December 30, 1932 in Zwijndrecht , † November 27, 1998 in Leuven ) was a Belgian classical and neo-Latin philologist . He is considered the "father of modern neo-Latin research".

Life

Jozef IJsewijn attended the Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege , an episcopal grammar school in Antwerp , from 1945 to 1951 , and because of his interest in ancient languages, which he had already aroused at school, he then began studying classical philology and ancient history at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , the he graduated in 1955. Afterwards he was a teacher at a Jesuit high school for a short time , but was more interested in research than the teaching profession. The ancient historian Willy Peremans arranged for him a scholarship from the Belgian Research Association , with the help of which he began his doctoral studies. In 1959 he received his doctorate there . At that time, IJsewijn was still primarily dedicated to papyrology and the history of Ptolemaic Egypt . In 1962 he became a lecturer and from 1967 until his retirement in 1997 he was full professor of classical philology and modern Latin in Leuven. In the year of his appointment to the professorship, he founded the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae . Together with his first assistant Gilbert Tournoy , he developed it into one of the outstanding research institutes in the field of modern Latin . The success of IJsewijn's teaching activity can be seen in his numerous students, of whom he supervised licentiate and doctoral theses, most of which dealt with neo-Latin topics. The academic students include Marie-José Desmet-Goethals , Godelieve Tournoy-Thoen , Gilbert Tournoy and Dirk Sacré .

In the late 1950s and early 1960s IJsewijn with his future wife, visited Jacqueline Jacobs that of Henry de Vocht held lectures on the history of humanism . They should have such a lasting impression on him that the focus of research now shifted from antiquity to the reception of antiquity in the time of humanism and above all to neo-Latin literature of the 15th to 17th centuries. IJsewijn joined the Latinitas viva movement and also had an active use of Latin. He maintained contacts with neo-Latin poets such as Josef Eberle , Johann Alexander Gaertner and Harry C. Schnur . Since 1964, the University of Löwen and the Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten IJsewijn's preference for their purposes: he wrote more than 200 public letters and honorary diplomas in the neo-Latin language. These included the honorary doctorates for personalities such as Karl Rahner , Ralf Dahrendorf , Jacques Derrida , Helmut Schmidt , Umberto Eco , Richard von Weizsäcker and Juan Carlos of Spain . He designed Latin inscriptions for ten public buildings in Leuven. In 1968 he re- established the magazine Humanistica Lovaniensia founded by Henri de Vocht in 1929 and expanded the previous focus on humanism to include neo-Latin. Since 1971 she has subtitled the Journal of Neo-Latin Studies . In the same year he organized the first neo-Latin congress in Leuven. Two years later the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies co-founded and became its founding president. He remained in office until 1975 when he was succeeded by Richard J. Schoek . IJsewijn was highly honored for his achievements. He was a member and president of the Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten , a fellow of the British Academy and the Academia Europaea , a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences , a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Valencia in 1992 . In 1980 he received the Francqui Prize .

Jozef IJsewijn's magnum opus became his companion to Neo-Latin Studies . It appeared for the first time in 1977 and was then completely rewritten and expanded to finally appear again in two volumes in 1990 and 1998. While the work still had a bibliographical and methodological focus in the first edition, the emphasis in the new edition was on the presentation of the countries and the neo-Latin text forms. In addition, IJsewijn wrote about 100 articles, the content of which mostly related to genres or authors, and about 150 reviews . When looking at the oeuvre one can see certain preferences. Among the authors he was particularly fond of Rudolf Agricola , Erasmus of Rotterdam , Justus Lipsius , Juan Luis Vives and the poems of the Jesuits. In terms of text types, he preferred autobiography and biography , drama , novel , satire and letters .

The Jozef IJsewijn Prize for best first book on a Neo-Latin topic

In memory of Jozef IJsewijn middle 2000s by the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies of the three year award Jozef IJsewijn Prize for best first book on a neo-Latin topic , the Jozef IJsewijn prize for the best first book to a neo-Latin theme justified .

Fonts

Monographs and manuals

  • De sacerdotibus sacerdotiisque Alexandri Magni et Lagidarum eponymis . 1961.
  • Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, North Holland Publishing Company 1977.
  • Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Part I: History and Diffusion of Neo-Latin Literature. Second entirely rewritten edition. Leuven-Louvain, Leuven UP / Peeters Press Louvain 1990.
  • with Dirk Sacré : Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Part II: Literary, linguistic, philological and editorial questions . Second entirely rewritten edition. Leuven-Louvain, Leuven UP 1998.
  • Humanism in the Low Countries. A Collection of Studies Selected and Edited by Gilbert Tournoy. (= Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 40). Leuven University Press, Leuven 2015.

Editorships and editions

  • with Gerard Verbeke : The late middle ages and the dawn of humanism outside Italy. Proceedings of the international conference, Louvain, May 11-13, 1970 . 1972.
  • with Eckhard Kessler : Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis: Louvain, 23–28 Aug. 1971. Proceedings of the First International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies. Leuven University Press, Leuven, Munich, Fink 1973.
  • with Jacques Paquet: The universities in the late Middle Ages. Leuven 1978.
  • Martini Dorpii Naldiceni orationes IV. Cum apologia et litteris adnexis . Leipzig, Teubner 1986.
  • with Barbara Lawatsch-Boomgaarden: Voyage to Maryland (1633) = Relatio itineris in Marilandiam by Andrew White , 1995.

literature

  • Gilbert Tournoy , Dirk Sacré (editors): Ut granum sinapis. Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Honor of Jozef Ijsewijn. Leuven University Press, Leuven 1997.
  • Dirk Sacré, Gilbert Tournoy (editor): Myricae. Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Memory of Jozef IJsewijn. (= Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 16). Leuven University Press, Leuven 2000.
  • Peter Hibst: Ijsewijn, Jozef. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 602 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erika Rummel, Milton Kooistra: Reformation Sources. The Letters of Wolfgang Capito and His Fellow Reformers in Alsace and Switzerland. Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7727-2032-0 , p. 96.
  2. ↑ 'Aux rives de la lumière' awarded with the Jozef IJsewijn Prize
  3. ↑ = Mnemosyne Supplements , Volume 354 Brill, Leiden-Boston and 2013 [1]
personal data
SURNAME IJsewijn, Jozef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES IJsewijn, Jozef Antoon Maria Karol (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian classical and neo-Latin philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwijndrecht
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1998
Place of death Lions