Egbert Bakker

Egbert Jan Bakker (born 12 November 1958)[1] is a Dutch classical scholar specializing in Greek language, literature and linguistics. He currently is a professor of Classics at Yale University.

Career

Bakker was born in 1958 in Amsterdam.[2] He obtained his PhD from Leiden University in 1988.[3] Bakker was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences for several months in 1992.[2] He lectured at Leiden University, University of Virginia, University of Texas at Austin, and the Université de Montréal before starting at Yale University in 2004.[2][3]

Bakker became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.[4]

Bakker is cited in the acknowledgments of the first two novels of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.

References

  1. ^ Bakker, Egbert J. at the DNB/VIAF website.
  2. ^ a b c "Bakker, E.J." Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Egbert Bakker". Yale Department of Classics. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  4. ^ "E.J. Bakker". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2016.


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