Lammert Bouke van der Meer (born 1945 in

Leeuwarden Leeuwarden (; fy, Ljouwert, longname=yes /; Stadsfries dialects, Town Frisian: ''Liwwadden''; Leeuwarder dialect: ''Leewarden'') is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in Fri ...

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) is a Dutch

classicist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

and classical archaeologist specialized in

Etruscology Etruscology is the study of the ancient civilization of the Etruscans in Italy, which was incorporated into an expanding Roman Empire during the period of Rome's Middle Republic. Since the Etruscans were politically and culturally influential in pr ...

. He studied classics and archaeology at the

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, and received his

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from the same university in 1978 with a dissertation entitled ''Etruscan urns from Volterra. Studies on mythological representations, I-II'' (supervised by A.N. Zadoks-Josephus Jitta). Van der Meer is retired associate professor of Classical Archaeology at Leiden University. Van der Meer is a leading authority on Etruscan religion. He published several books and numerous articles on Etruscan origins, Etruscan language, Etruscan mirrors, the Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis, the

liver of Piacenza The Liver of Piacenza is an Etruscan civilization, Etruscan artifact found in a field on September 26, 1877, near Gossolengo, in the province of Piacenza, Italy, now kept in the Municipal Museum of Piacenza, in the Palazzo Farnese (Piacenza), Pal ...

, cinerary urns from

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, sarcophagi and the Etruscan collection in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. He is also a member of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici in

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and the editorial board of the archaeological journal BABESCH.

Selected works

Books

*''Etrusco Ritu. Case studies in Etruscan ritual behaviour'' (2011) *''Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis. The linen book of Zagreb. A comment on the longest Etruscan text'' (2007) *''Myths and more. On Etruscan stone sarcophagi, ca. 350-200 B.C.'' (2004) *''Interpretatio Etrusca. Greek myths on Etruscan mirrors'' (1995) *(with

Robert Beekes Robert Stephen Paul Beekes (; 2 September 1937 – 21 September 2017) was a Dutch linguist who was emeritus professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University and an author of many monographs on the Proto-Indo-European lan ...

), ''De Etrusken spreken'' (1991) *''The bronze liver of Piacenza. Analysis of a polytheistic structure'' (1987) *''Corpus speculorum Etruscorum: The Netherlands'' (1983) *''Etruscan urns from volterra. Studies on mythological representations'' (1978) *(editor) ''De Etrusken. Inleiding tot de verzameling Etruskische oudheden in het

Rijksmuseum van Oudheden The (English: National Museum of Antiquities) is the national archaeological museum of the Netherlands, located in Leiden. It grew out of the collection of Leiden University and still closely co-operates with its Faculty of Archaeology. The ...

te Leiden'' (1977)

External links

University profile
* ttps://leidenuniv.academia.edu/BoukeVanDerMeer Academia.edu profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Meer, L. Bouke Van Der Living people Etruscan scholars 20th-century Dutch archaeologists People from Leeuwarden 1945 births 21st-century Dutch archaeologists