Jan Hendrik Waszink

Jan Hendrik Waszink ( born October 17, 1908 in Renswoude; † October 5, 1990 in Lugano ) was a Dutch Latinist and a professor at the University of Leiden.

Waszink studied Greek and Latin Studies in Leiden, where at Frederick Muller jzn he received his doctorate in 1933 with a thesis on Tertullian's De Anima. From 1946 he was until his retirement in 1974, Professor of Latin at the University of Leiden. Waszink was co-founder and co-editor until 1984, the real lexicon for Antiquity and Christianity. Together with Christine Mohrmann, he was founder of the magazine Vigiliae Christianae, whose editor in chief he remained until 1988.

Writings (selection )

• Tertullian, De Anima. With Introduction, Translation and Commentary. Amsterdam 1933.
• The Greek tragedy in the judgment of the Romans and the Christians. In: Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity. No. 7 Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1964, pp. 139-148.
• Bee and honey as a symbol of the poet and poetry in the Greco -Roman antiquity. Opladen 1974, ISBN 3-531-07196-3.
• The notions of the " expansion of nature" in the Greco -Roman antiquity and early Christianity. In: Piety, Festschrift for Bernard Koetting. Edited by Ernst Dassmann and K. Suso Frank ( = Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity. Supplement 8). Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1980, pp. 30-38.