Christian Hoekema is a visiting researcher at LUCK this autumn. He presents himself in this way:

“I am a Dutch researcher working in the history of philology. After previously having spent time abroad at the University of Oslo and the Free University of Berlin during my Dutch BAs and MA, I am now doing my PhD at the University of Ghent. My dissertation is part of the ERC-project PhiSci: Philology as a Science in the 19th Century (https://www.metaphilology.ugent.be/about/) and deals with the Royal Historical Commission in Brussels in particular. In addition to the collaboration of Romance and Germanic philologies in Belgium, this dissertation focuses on how this institute produced source-publications and other new editions of historical material considered part of the national heritage. It does so by studying this textual output with an emphasis on changes in the auxiliary sciences to philology. During my time at the LUCK, I am grappling with the role of Catholic theology in 19th century philology and laying the last hand on my first chapter.”

Welcome, Christian!