Jozef A. M. K. IJsewijn ( Zwijndrecht, 30 December 1932 –

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, 27 November 1998) was a Belgian Latinist. He studied classical philology at the

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, where he became a professor in 1967. An authority on

Neo-Latin New Latin (also called Neo-Latin or Modern Latin) is the revival of Literary Latin used in original, scholarly, and scientific works since about 1500. Modern scholarly and technical nomenclature, such as in zoological and botanical taxonomy ...

literature (Latin texts since the beginning of

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in the 14th century), IJsewijn has been called "the founding father of modern neo-Latin studies". In 1980, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences. A collection of essays in his memory was published in 2000.Dirk Sacré and Gilbert Tournoy, eds., ''Myricae : essays on neo-Latin literature in memory of Jozef IJsewijn'', 2000.

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 , 1986 * (tr. and ed. with Barbara Lawatsch-Boomgaarden) ''Voyage to Maryland (1633) = Relatio itineris in Marilandiam'' by Andrew White, 1995.

References

1932 births 1998 deaths Belgian classical scholars Flemish academics Academic staff of KU Leuven Neo-Latin studies People from Antwerp Province Dutch Latinists {{Belgium-bio-stub