Egbert Bakker

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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.

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References

  1. Bakker, Egbert J. at the DNB/VIAF website.
  2. 1 2 3 "Bakker, E.J." Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences . Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  3. 1 2 "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.