Jeanine De Landtsheer

Jeanine de Landtsheer (1954–2021) was a Belgian classicist who edited six volumes of the correspondence of Justus Lipsius and a number of works by Desiderius Erasmus.

Life

De Landtsheer was born in Mechelen on 18 January 1954 and was educated at the Ursuline school there.[1] She went on to study classical philology at the University of Antwerp and at the KU Leuven, graduating with a licentiate degree in 1975.[1] She then became a teacher of Latin and art history at the Regina Pacis Institute, Hove. She obtained a doctorate in 1993, and went on to edit several volumes of Lipsius's correspondence and a number of works by Erasmus, as well as writing essays and articles on classical studies in the Renaissance.[1] She died at home in Hove on 18 January 2021.[1]

Works

  • with G. Tournoy and J. Papy (eds.), Lipsius en Leuven, exhibition catalogue (Leuven, 1997)
  • Justus Lipsius (1547–1606), een geleerde en zijn Europese netwerk (Leuven, 2006)
  • In Pursuit of the Muses: The Life and Work of Justus Lipsius, posthumously edited by Marijke Crab and Ide François (Ghent, 2021)

Iusti Lipsi Epistolae

  • Iusti Lipsi Epistolae, pars IV: 1591 (Brussels, 2012)
  • with J. Kluyskens, Iusti Lipsi Epistolae, pars V: 1592 (Brussels, 1991)
  • Iusti Lipsi Epistolae, pars VI: 1593 (Brussels, 1994)
  • Iusti Lipsi Epistolae, pars VII: 1594 (Brussels, 1997)
  • Iusti Lipsi Epistolae, pars VIII: 1595 (Brussels, 2004)[2]
  • Iusti Lipsi Epistolae, pars X: 1597 (forthcoming)
  • with Sylvette Sué, Iusti Lipsi Epistolae, pars XIV: 1601 (Brussels, 2006)

References

  1. ^ a b c d Dirk Sacré, Marcus de Schepper and Harm-Jan van Dam, "Jeanine de Landtsheer", Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, 2020-2021 (2022), pp. 77-85.
  2. ^ Reviewed by Terence O. Tunberg in Renaissance Quarterly, 59:2 (2006), pp. 591-592.
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