How to Pronounce Jozef IJsewijn
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Dec 30, 1932 Zwijndrecht, Flemish Region, Belgium Died on 27 Nov 1998 (aged 65)
Belgian classical philologist
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About Jozef Ijsewijn
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- 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), 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.
