Jozef IJsewijn

Jozef IJsewijn (1973)

Jozef A. M. K. IJsewijn (Zwijndrecht, 30 December 1932 – Leuven, 27 November 1998) was a Belgian Latinist. He studied classical philology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he became a professor in 1967. An authority on Neo-Latin literature (Latin texts since the beginning of humanism in the 14th century),^[1] IJsewijn has been called "the founding father of modern neo-Latin studies".^[2] In 1980, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences. A collection of essays in his memory was published in 2000.^[3]

Works

• De sacerdotibus sacerdotiisque Alexandri Magni et Lagidarum eponymis, 1961
• (ed. with G. Verbeke) The late middle ages and the dawn of humanism outside Italy; proceedings of the international conference, Louvain, May 11-13, 1970, 1972
• Companion to neo-Latin studies, 1977
• (ed. with Jaques Paquet) The universities in the late Middle Ages, 1978
• (ed.) Martini Dorpii Naldiceni orationes IV: cum apologia et litteris adnexis by Martin Dorp, 1986
• (tr. and ed. with Barbara Lawatsch-Boomgaarden) Voyage to Maryland (1633) = Relatio itineris in Marilandiam by Andrew White, 1995.

References

1. D. Sacré-G. Tournoy (edd.), Myricae. Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Memory of Jozef IJsewijn, Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 16 (Leuven 2000)
2. Erika Rummel; Milton Kooistra (2007). Reformation Sources: The Letters of Wolfgang Capito and His Fellow Reformers in Alsace and Switzerland. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-7727-2032-0. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
3. Dirk Sacré and Gilbert Tournoy, eds., Myricae : essays on neo-Latin literature in memory of Jozef IJsewijn, 2000.