Marc Lauxtermann

Marc Diederik Lauxtermann (born September 27, 1960 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch Byzantine and Neo-Greekist .

Lauxtermann received his doctorate in 1994 with a dissertation on the Byzantine epigram at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and was professor at the Leerstoelgroep Nieuwgriekse taal- en letterkunde & Byzantinologie there from 2002 to 2006 . Since 2007 he has been the Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and also a Fellow of Exeter College , Oxford .

Lauxtermann works on Byzantine poetry, especially the epigram , and its metrics (especially the fifteen silver, the so-called "political verse"). Another area of ​​work is modern Greek lexicography : together with Arnold F. van Gemert , he created a two-volume modern Greek-Dutch dictionary. Current research projects concern the earliest Greek grammars, the biography of Johannes Mauropous , the so-called ptochoprodromics and forms of laughter with their socio-political implications in Byzantium .

Lauxtermann is married to Marjolijne C. Janssen .

Fonts

• (with Arnold F. van Gemert): Prisma Groot Woordenboek Nederlands-Nieuwgrieks, Nieuwgrieks-Nederlands , 2 vols. Houten, 2008.
• The Anthology of Cephalas , in: Martin Hinterberger, E. Schiffer (Ed.), Byzantinische Sprachkunst. Studies on Byzantine literature dedicated to Wolfram Hörandner on the occasion of his 65th birthday . Berlin-New York, 2007, pp. 194–208, Google books: [1]
• Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres: texts and contexts , Vol. I. Vienna, 2003. Vol. II. Vienna 2019 (Wiener Byzantinistische Studien XXIV / 1 and 2)
• The Spring of Rhythm: an essay on the political verse and other Byzantine meters . Vienna, 1999 (Byzantina Vindobonensia, XXII), ISBN 3-7001-2797-9 .
  • Greek translation: Οι απαρχές του ρυθμού: ένα δοκίμιο για τον πολιτικό στίχο και άλλα βυζαντινά μέτρα . Thessaloniki, 2007.
• The Byzantine Epigram in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries , Diss. Amsterdam 1994.

Web links

• Lauxtermann, Marc D.  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Personal page at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford (with list of publications)
• Fred Huisman: Lauxtermann family in Nederland .