Willem J. Aerts

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Willem Johan Aerts , usually abbreviated according to the Dutch convention Willem J. Aerts or WJ Aerts (born February 26, 1926 in Amsterdam ; † February 8, 2017 in Groningen ) was a Dutch Byzantine and Neo- Graecist professor emeritus for Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology at the university Groningen .

Aerts studied classical philology at the Universiteit van Amsterdam from 1945 to 1951 . After working as a lecturer for Middle and Modern Greek, he held the chair for Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology in Groningen from 1967 to 1990.

After work on Greek linguistics, the subject of which he, like GH Blanken , Willem F. Bakker and Arnold F. van Gemert, tackled holistically, i.e. taking into account the entire linguistic development of Greek from Homer's beginnings to the present day (including the southern Italian Griko ), Aerts turned to the tradition of the Alexander legend after his appointment and founded the so-called Groningen Alexander study group , the results of which he published in various anthologies. In the 1980s and 1990s, edition philology was in the foreground, in particular when he critically edited and commented on the Editio princeps of the Historia Syntomos by Michael Psellos , a world chronicle shortened for didactic purposes, and, together with GAA Kortekaas, the oldest Greek and Latin translations of the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius published. Further works are both linguistic (Byzantine lexicography ) and literary (Byzantine novel , especially Barlaam and Ioasaph ) and historical topics (especially Nikon vom Black Mountain ).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Periphrastica . An investigation into the use of εἶναι and ἔχειν as auxiliaries and pseudo-auxiliaries from Homer up to the present day. Amsterdam 1965. - Proefschrift.
  • Magna Graecia of Byzantium? Some problems rond het Grieks in Zuiditalië. Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam, 1968. - Inaugural address Groningen.

Editions

  • The Monza Vocabulary. In: WF Bakker, AF van Gemert, WJ Aerts (eds.): Studia Byzantina et Neohellenica Neerlandica. Brill, Leiden, 1972 (= Byzantina Neerlandica, 3), ISBN 9004035524 , pp. 36-73 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Michaelis Pselli Historia Syntomos . Recensuit, Anglice vertit et commentario instruxit WJ Aerts (= Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae , Ser. Berolina, vol. 30). De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1990 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Theodorus Prodromus : Kikkermuizenoorlog. Styx Publications, 1992, ISBN 90-72-37157-7 .
  • (Ed., With GAA Kortekaas): The Apocalypse of the Pseudo-Methodius. The oldest Greek and Latin translations. 1: Introduction, texts, indices Locorum et Nominum (= Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Vol. 569; Subsidia, Tomus 97). Löwen 1998 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

Editorships

  • (Ed., With Joseph MM Hermans): Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages. Ten studies of the last days of Alexander the Great in literary and historical writing (= Mediaevalia Groningana, 1). Nijmegen, 1978.
  • (Ed.): Scholia. Studia ad criticam interpretationemque textuum Graecorum et ad historiam iuris Graeco-Romani pertinentia viro doctissimo D. Holwerda oblata. Egbert Forsten, Groningen, 1985, ISBN 9-069-80001-2 .
  • (Ed., With Edmé R. Smits, Johan B. Voorbij): Vincent of Beauvais and Alexander the Great. Studies on the 'Speculum Maius' and its translations into Medieval vernaculars (= Mediaevalia Groningana, 7). Egbert Forsten, Groningen, 1986.
  • (Ed., With Martin Gosman): Exemplum et similitudo. Alexander the Great and other heroes as points of reference in medieval literature (= Mediaevalia Groningana, 8). Egbert Forsten, Groningen, 1988.
  • Lodewijk Jozef Engels, Heinz Hofmann , in connection with Willem J. Aerts (Ed.): Spätantike. With a panorama of Byzantine literature. Volume 4 of: Klaus von See (Ed.): New manual of literary studies. Aula-Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1997, ISBN 3-89104-052-0 .

items

  • The knowledge of Greek in Western Europe at the time of Theophano and the Greek grammar fragment in ms. Vindob. 114. In: VD van Aalst, KN Ciggaar (Ed.): Byzantium and the Low Countries in the Tenth Century. Aspects of Art and History in the Ottonian Era. AA Brediusstichting, 1985, ISBN 90-71-33301-9 , pp. 78-103.
  • Some considerations on the language and time of the writing of the Greek novel 'Barlaam and Ioasaph'. In: Odilo Engels, Peter Schreiner (Ed.): The encounter of the West with the East. Congress files of the 4th symposium of the Medievalist Association in Cologne in 1991 on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the death of Empress Theophanu. Sigmaringen 1993, pp. 357-364.
  • Alexander the Great and Ancient Travel Stories. In: ZRWM von Martel (ed.): Travel fact and travel fiction. Studies on fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery, and observation in travel writing (= Brill's studies in intellectual history, vol. 55). Brill, Leiden, 1994, ISBN 90-04-10112-8 , pp. 30-38 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • The ' Abduction from the Seraglio ' - Motif in the Byzantine (vernacular) romances. In: Stelios Panayotakis, Maaike Zimmerman, Wytse Hette Keulen (eds.): The ancient novel and beyond (= Mnemosyne, Suppl. 241). Brill, Leiden, 2003, ISBN 9-004-12999-5 , pp. 381-392, ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • A Byzantine traveler to one of the Crusader States. In: Krijna Nelly Ciggaar, Herman GB Teule (Ed.): East and West in the Crusader states. Context, contacts, confrontations. Acta of the congress held at Hernen Castle in September 2000 (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, Vol. 3). Peeters Publishers, Löwen, 2003, ISBN 9042912871 , pp. 165–221 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Nikon of the Black Mountain, Witness to the first Crusade? Some remarks on his person, his use of language and his work, named Taktikon, esp. Logos 31. In: Krijna Nelly Ciggaar, David M. Metcalf (Eds.): East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterrean. Vol. 1: Antioch from the Byzantine reconquest until the end of the Crusader principality (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, Vol. 147). Peeters Publishers, 2006, ISBN 90-42-91735-0 , pp. 125-139 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Nikon of the Black Mountain, Logos 31 (Translation). In: Krijna Nelly Ciggaar, David M. Metcalf (Eds.): East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterrean. Vol. 1: Antioch from the Byzantine reconquest until the end of the Crusader principality (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, Vol. 147). Peeters Publishers, 2006, ISBN 90-42-91735-0 , pp. 140–170 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Lexicographics from the Byzantine Alexander poem and from Nikon am Schwarzen Berg. In: Erich Trapp , Sonja Schönauer (eds.): Lexicologica byzantina. Contributions to the Colloquium on Byzantine Lexicography (Bonn, July 13-15 , 2007) (= Super Alta Perennis. Studies on the Effects of Classical Antiquity, Vol. 4). Bonn University Press, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2008, ISBN 3-899-71484-9 , pp. 151–161 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

literature

  • Hero Hokwerda, Edmé R. Smits, Marinus M. Woesthuis, Lia van Midden (Eds.): Polyphonia Byzantina. Studies in honor of Willem J. Aerts (= Mediaevalia Groningana, 13). Egbert Forsten, Groningen, 1993, ISBN 90-6980-054-3 (bibliography of the writings of WJ Aerts by Lia van Midden, pp. 373-383).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.online-familieberichten.nl , accessed on July 21, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Aerts, Willem J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aerts, Willem Johan; Aerts, WJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Byzantinist and Neo-Greekist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2017
Place of death Groningen