Jozef IJsewijn

Jozef A. M. K. IJsewijn 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, 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.

Works

De sacerdotibus sacerdotiisque Alexandri Magni et Lagidarum eponymis, 1961The late middle ages and the dawn of humanism outside Italy; proceedings of the international conference, Louvain, May 11-13, 1970, 1972Companion to neo-Latin studies, 1977The universities in the late Middle Ages, 1978Martini Dorpii Naldiceni orationes IV: cum apologia et litteris adnexis by, 1986Voyage to Maryland = Relatio itineris in Marilandiam by Andrew White, 1995.