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
Maarten van Dorp [
nl], 1986
(tr. and ed. with Barbara Lawatsch-Boomgaarden) Voyage to Maryland (1633) = Relatio itineris in Marilandiam by
Andrew White, 1995.
References
^D. Sacré-G. Tournoy (edd.), Myricae. Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Memory of Jozef IJsewijn, Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 16 (Leuven 2000)