Research group Knowledge and Art Practices
Specialisation Latin literature of the early modern period, Erasmus, theatre, poetry, reception
Contact jan.bloemendal@huygens.knaw.nl
+31 (0)20-2246802

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 Heinsiusā€™s 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 Vossiusā€™Ā 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 ā€˜Latin 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 ā€˜Dynamics 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.