Annette Harder | |
|---|---|
 Harder in 2005 | |
| Born | 1952 (age 72–73) |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Groningen |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Sub-discipline | Ancient Greek literature |
Marijke Annette Harder (born 1952) is a Dutch classical scholar,known above all for her work on ancient Greek literature of the Hellenistic period.
Harder was born in 1952. [1] She was educated at Bogerman College,Sneek,and Menso Alting College,Hoogeveen,before studying at the University of Groningen. She obtained her doctorate there in 1985,with a dissertation titled "Euripides' Kresphontes and Archelaos ",supervised by Stefan Radt and Hugh Lloyd-Jones. [2]
During her doctoral studies,she was a student assistant in the working group on Apuleius at Groningen (1975–1978),studied papyrology for a year at the University of Oxford with a grant provided by the Philologisch Studiefonds of Utrecht University (1978–1979),and worked as a researcher at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae at the University of Hamburg (1980–1981) and as a research assistant and teacher at Utrecht (1981–1986). After obtaining her doctorate,she spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at Groningen (1986–1987),before becoming a lecturer there in 1988 and a professor in 1991. [2]
In 2005,she was appointed as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. [2] [3] [4]
Harder's most substantial work is a major two-volume edition with commentary on the Aetia ,the fragmentary magnum opus of the Hellenistic poet Callimachus. Harder began working on this commentary in the 1980s,and worked on it until its final publication in 2012. The work received high praise from reviewers such as James J. Clauss,who described it as an "amazing work" which "will likely itself become a classic". [5]
After serving for many years as an editor of the Hellenistica Groningiana series of volumes on Hellenistic poetry,Harder was honoured in 2019 with a Festschrift in that series,Callimachus Revisited:New Perspectives in Callimachean Scholarship. [6]
