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Professor Harm Pinkster FBA

Latin Language and Literature Greek and Latin Philology and Linguistics
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2004
Year of birth
1942
Year of death
2021
Subjects
Classics, Linguistics
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Last post

University of Amsterdam Professor Emeritus of Latin

Past appointments

University of Amsterdam Professor of Latin

1970 -

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