Monique Mund-Dopchie (born in

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, Belgium, on 21 August 1943) is a Belgian classicist. She is the current president of the

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. In 1970 Mund-Dopchie obtained a doctorate in

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

. She went on to work as a professor of Ancient Greek Literature and of the History of Humanism in the Philosophy Department of the

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. In 2008 she became professor emeritus. After her retirement a

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was presented to her jointly with Gilbert Tournoy, relating to her work on

Neo-Latin Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith ''Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin'' in ; others, throughout. (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy d ...

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: ''Syntagmatia: Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Honour of Monique Mund-Dopchie and Gilbert Tournoy'', edited by Dirk Sacré and Jan Papy (

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, 2009) In 2000 she was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, and in 2004 a full member. Since January 2017 she has been president of the Academy.

Honours

* 1965: fellow of the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome. * 1972: fellow of the

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. * 1974: fellow of the "Bourse Claire Préaux". * 2004: Member of the

, (Letters Class) * 2006: Grand Officer in the Order of the Crown.Numac : 2007029429 * 2017: President of the

Publications

* ''Le premier travail français sur Eschyle: le Prométhée enchaîné de Jean Dorat'' (Université catholique de Louvain, 1976) * ''La survie d'Eschyle à la Renaissance: éditions, traductions, commentaires et imitations'' (Peeters, 1984) * ''Les survivants de l’âge d’or. Les pays des confins dans l’imaginaire grec avec un aperçu de leur survie dans la culture occidentale'' (Louvain-la-Neuve, 2001) * ''Ultima Thulé: Histoire d'un lieu et genèse d'un mythe'' (Geneva, 2009), * ''L’Atlantide de Platon: Histoire vraie ou préfiguration de l’Utopie de Thomas More?'' (Académie royale de Belgique, 2017)

References

1943 births President of the Royal Academy of Belgium Grand Officers of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) Living people Neo-Latin studies {{academic-bio-stub