Willem Jacob Verdenius

Willem Jacob Verdenius (born April 3, 1913 in The Hague , † June 23, 1998 in Zeist ) was a Dutch Graecist .

Life

Willem Jacob was the son of the German teacher JA Verdenius. He attended Haganum High School in The Hague from 1926 to 1933 and then studied Classical Philology at the University of Utrecht . His teachers there were Carl Wilhelm Vollgraff in Greek and Classical Archeology, Hendrik Wagenvoort in Latin Philology and Hendrik Bolkestein in Ancient History.

From 1939 to 1944 he was a teacher at Haganum High School. In 1942 he was with Vollgraff with a dissertation entitled Parmenides. Some comments on his poem is doing his PhD. After the end of the Second World War he became a teacher in Dordrecht . In 1947 he was appointed full professor of Greek studies at the University of Utrecht as the successor to Vollgraff. In 1978 he retired.

From 1952 to 1983 he was editor of the magazine Mnemosyne .

He was married to Elisabeth de Jong Saales on December 28, 1946, with whom he had two daughters.

Verdenius worked mainly on archaic and classical literature. After his retirement there were comments on Pindar and Hesiod .

Fonts (selection)

• Parmenides. Some comments on his poem . 1942.
• with Jan Hendrik Waszink : Aristotle on coming-to-be and passing-away. Some comments . 1946.
• Mimesis. Plato's doctrine of artistic imitation and its meaning to us . 1949.
• Platen Atlas bij Homerus . 1955.
• Buttoned bibliography for the study of the Griekse taal- en letterkunde . 1960.
• Homer, the educator of the Greeks . 1970.
• Pindar's Seventh Olympian Ode. A commentary . 1972.
• with AHM Kessels: A concise bibliography of Greek language and literature . 1979.
• Commentaries on Pindar. 2 parts. Brill, Leiden 1987-1988
• A commentary on Hesiod. Works and Days vv. 1-382. Brill, Leiden 1985

Web links

• Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae: Prof. dr. WJ Verdenius (1913–1998)
• Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen , Past Members: Willem Jacob Verdenius (1913–1998)