Josef IJsewijn

Biography: Josef IJsewijn (1932-1998) studied classical philology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he became a professor in 1967. He founded the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae or Seminar for Neo-Latin Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1967 and was the first president of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. Ut Granum Sinapis: Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Honour of Jozef IJsewijn (Leuven University Press, 1997) was published in recognition of his scholarship and his promotion of Neo-Latin studies. IJswewijn authored The Universities in the Late Middle Ages (University Press, 1978) and Companion to Neo-Latin Studies, Part I: History and Diffusion of Neo-Latin Literature (University Press, 1990), edited with Barbara Lawatsch-Boomgaarden Voyage to Maryland: Relatio Itineris in Marilandiam (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1995), and coauthored with James J. Mertz, SJ, and John P. Murphy, SJ Jesuit Latin Poets of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1989).