Professor Jan Bloemendal
Jan Bloemendal is senior researcher at the Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Neo-Latin at the Ruhr University Bochum. He studied classics, Dutch literature and theology. His research topics include Neo-Latin, early modern drama, and Erasmus. He was co-editor of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World (2014) and wrote extensively on Neo-Latin drama and its public functions, and the dynamics between Latin and the vernaculars in the early modern period, and organised many conferences and panels. Furthermore, he is secretary to the edition of the Erasmi Opera Omnia (ASD) and edited Erasmus’ paraphrases on Luke and John, and co-edited his ‘On Free Will’. He researches the Rotterdam humanist as a theologian.
Select publications
- Jan Bloemendal, ‘Biblical Stories on the Medieval and Early Modern STage: A Transnational Approach’,Journal of the Bible and Its Reception, 11 (2024): 147-172
- Johannes Reuchlin, Scaenica progymnasmata or Henno (1498) and Jacob Spiegel’s Commentary (1512): Neo-Latin Comedy and Transnational Learning (Triert: WVT, 2024)
- Jan Bloemendal (ed.), Paraphrasis in Ioannem (ASD VII, 3A) (Leiden: Brill, 2022)
- Jan Bloemendal (ed.), Paraphrasis in Lucam (ASD VII, 2) (Leiden: Brill, 2018)
- Jan Bloemendal and Howard B. Norland (eds), Neo-Latin Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
- Philip J. Ford, Jan Bloemendal, and Charles Fantazzi (eds), Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World (Leiden: Brill, 2014)
