Jan Hendrik Waszink, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jan Hendrik Waszink

Dutch professor

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1908

Place of Birth: Renswoude, Utrecht, Netherlands

Date of Death: 05-Oct-1990

Profession: university teacher, classical scholar, latinist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Jan Hendrik Waszink (17 October 1908, Renswoude – 5 October 1990, Lugano) was a Dutch Latin scholar, Professor of Latin at Leiden University.
Best known as an expert on Tertullian, he also edited the translation and commentary by Calcidius on Plato's Timaeus.Waszink is counted following Franz Joseph Dölger and others as one of the founders of Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum and with Christine Mohrmann of Vigiliae Christianae.