Jan Hendrik Waszink (17 October 1908,

Renswoude Renswoude () is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. Topography ''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Renswoude, June 2015'' Notable people * Jan Hendrik Waszink (1908–1990) a Dutch La ...

– 5 October 1990,

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) was a Dutch Latin scholar, Professor of Latin at

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...

. Best known as an expert on

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, he also edited the translation and commentary by

Calcidius Calcidius (or Chalcidius) was a 4th-century philosopher (and possibly a Christians, Christian) who translated the first part (to 53c) of Plato's ''Timaeus (dialogue), Timaeus'' from Greek (language), Greek into Latin around the year 321 and provid ...

Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...

's ''

Timaeus Timaeus (or Timaios) is a Greek name. It may refer to: * ''Timaeus'' (dialogue), a Socratic dialogue by Plato *Timaeus of Locri, 5th-century BC Pythagorean philosopher, appearing in Plato's dialogue *Timaeus (historian) (c. 345 BC-c. 250 BC), Greek ...

''. Waszink is counted following

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and others as one of the founders of Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum and with

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Life

Waszink was born in

, where his father was a doctor. He was educated at a local grammar school before studying classics at

, writing his PhD thesis (1933) on

. After being a grammar school teacher, he was appointed Professor of Latin at Leiden in 1946. Though best known for his interest in

patristics Patristics or patrology is the study of the early Christian writers who are designated Church Fathers. The names derive from the combined forms of Latin ''pater'' and Greek ''patḗr'' (father). The period is generally considered to run from ...

- fired by Dölger's seminars - he also took an interest in

neo-Latin New Latin (also called Neo-Latin or Modern Latin) is the revival of Literary Latin used in original, scholarly, and scientific works since about 1500. Modern scholarly and technical nomenclature, such as in zoological and botanical taxonomy ...

, writing on

Petrarch Francesco Petrarca (; 20 July 1304 – 18/19 July 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch (), was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited w ...

and participating in the edition of

Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' wa ...

. Waszink became member of the

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in 1950. He died on 5 October 1990, while holidaying with friends.'Jan Hendrik Waszink (1908-1990), ''Revue des études augustiniennes'', Vol. 37 (1991), p.6

Works

* (ed.) ''De anima'' by

, 1933. * (with W.J. Verdenius) ''

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

on coming-to be and passing-away: some comments'', 1946. * (ed. and tr.) ''De Anima'' by Tertullian. 1947 * (ed.) ''Adversus Hermogenem'' by Tertullian. Utrecht, 1956. * (tr.) ''Adversus Hermogenem'' by Tertullian. London, 1956 ( ACW 24). * (ed.) ''Timaeus'' by

, tr. by

. 1962. * ''Studien zum Timaioskommentar des

'', 1964. * ''Opuscula selecta'', 1979. * (tr, with annotation) ''De Anima'' by Tertullian * (ed. with J. C. M van Winden) ''De idololatria'' by Tertullian, 1987.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Waszink, Jan Hendrik 1908 births 1990 deaths Dutch classical scholars Dutch Latinists Leiden University alumni Classical scholars of Leiden University Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Renswoude Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy