Monique Mund-Dopchie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Monique Mund-Dopchie

Belgian classicist

Date of Birth: 21-Aug-1943

Place of Birth: Ronse, Flemish Region, Belgium

Profession: literary historian, classical philologist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Monique Mund-Dopchie (born in Ronse, Belgium, on 21 August 1943) is a Belgian classicist.
She is the current president of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. In 1970 Mund-Dopchie obtained a doctorate in Classical Philology.
She went on to work as a professor of Ancient Greek Literature and of the History of Humanism in the Philosophy Department of the Université Catholique de Louvain.
In 2008 she became professor emeritus.
After her retirement a Festschrift was presented to her jointly with Gilbert Tournoy: Syntagmatia: Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Honour of Monique Mund-Dopchie and Gilbert Tournoy, edited by Dirk Sacré and Jan Papy (Leuven University Press, 2009) In 2000 she was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, and in 2004 a full member.
Since January 2017 she has been president of the Academy.