Biography
Jan Bloemendal studied ClassicsĀ and Dutch Language and Literature at the University of Utrecht and worked for some years as a teacherĀ at aĀ secondary school. In 1997 he obtained his PhD with an annotated edition of Daniel Heinsiusās Auriacus, sive Libertas saucia (in English:Ā William of Orange, or the Wounding of Liberty), 1602. Between 2000 and 2005 he was responsible for the publication of VossiusāĀ Poeticae institutionesĀ at Huygens ING. From May 2004 onward, he worked at the Classics department of the University of Amsterdam as the principal investigator of the project entitled āLatin and Vernacular Cultures. Theatre and Public Opinion in the Netherlands ca. 1510-1625ā, which was funded by the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) as a VIDI project. From 2006 till 2012 he was Professor by special appointment of Neo-Latin Studies at the University of Amsterdam. In 2009 he received a grant from NWO for the project āDynamics of Neo-Latin and the Vernacularā, which was partially being implemented at Huygens Instituut. He is secretary of the edition of theĀ Erasmi Opera Omnia. After his habilitation in 2017, he became PrivatDozent at the Ruhr-University Bochum, where he became a professor by special appointment (apl) in 2023. Since January 2020 he has been project leader of TransLatin: The Transnational Impact of Latin Theatre from the Early Modern Netherlands, which was made possible by an Open Competition grant from NWO.
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- contribution to edited volume
- contribution to conference
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