Curriculum vitae
Henk Jan de Jonge: Curriculum vitae
Curriculum vitae
28 September 1943: born at Leiden, The Netherlands.
1955-1961: grammarschool ‘Christelijk Lyceum’, later 'Visser 't Hooft', Leiden.
1961-1969: study of Classics, Leiden University.
1965-1969: study of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Leiden University.
1969: M.A. (with the highest distinction). Major: Latin language and literature; minors: Patristic and Byzantine literature; New Testament and Early Christian Literature.
1967-1970: research assistent in the Dept. of New Testament Studies of Leiden University, charged with the preparation of a critical edition of the Greek text of The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.
1970-1977: Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Amsterdam University, Faculty of Theology.
1977-1984: Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Amsterdam University.
1983: Dr. litt. (with the highest distinction) by a Ph.D. thesis on Erasmus’ first apologia against Stunica (also published in the Amsterdam Erasmi Opera Omnia).
From 1 January 1985 to 31 December 1990: Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Leiden University, Faculty of Theology.
From 1 January 1987 to 1 July 1991: Professor of the History of Biblical Exegesis 1500-1800, Leiden University, on an endowed chair.
From 1 January 1991 to 1 September 2006: full Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Leiden University; Head of the Dept. of New Testament Studies.
From 1 September 1994 to 1 September 1996: Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Leiden University and Chair of the Board of the Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions (LISOR).
1 September 2002 – 1 September 2005: second term as Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Leiden University.
8 February 2005: on behalf of the Board of Faculty Deans, the cappa doctoralis referred on H.M. Queen Beatrix on the occasion of her appointment as honorary doctor of Leiden University.
8 February 2006: Address given before Leiden University on the occasion of its foundation day: "Zondag en sabbat. Over het ontstaan van de christelijke zondag" [Sunday and Sabbath. On the origin of the Christian Sunday].
28 April 2006: Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
14 July 2006: William Smith Memorial Sermon delivered in Portsmouth Cathedral.
1 September 2006: retirement from the Chair of New Testament at Leiden.
13 April 2007: Valedictory lecture delivered at Leiden University: "Avondmaal en symposium. Oorsprong en eerste ontwikkeling van de vroegchristelijke samenkomst" [The Lord's Supper and the Hellenistic Symposium. Origin and earliest development of the Early Christian gathering].
1 August 2012: Presidential address delivered at the 67th General Meeting of the Society for New Testament Studies, held at Leuven, KU Leuven: "The Chronology of the Ascension Stories in Luke and Acts".
8 - 9 May 2015: Keynote speaker at the conference "Polymaths and Proofreaders", a conference in honor of Anthony Grafton on his 65th birthday, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ: "The Sibyls in Sixteenth-Century Scholarship."
10 November 2015: the second Frans Neirynck Lecture given at the KU Leuven, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies: "The Origin of the Sunday Eucharist".
16 April 2022: died in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Administrative Responsibilities
1977: membre, 1978-1987: président de la Commission de l’histoire et de la Bibliothèque des Églises (Amsterdam). From 16 May 1998 to 16 April 2019, again président de la Commission de l’histoire des Églises et de la Bibliothèque wallonnes (the library was moved to Leiden in November 1998).
15 January 1988: président d’honneur de la Commission de l’histoire et de la Bibliothèque des Églises wallonnes.
1983-1987: Chair of the Permanent Interuniversity Committe for the Regulation of the Admission of Students to the Dutch Theology Faculties who have had no Training in Latin and Greek.
1988-1991: member of the Committee of the Society of New Testament Studies.
1990-2002: member of the board of Leiden University Press.
1991-1994: director of the department of Biblical Studies in the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER).
1992-2003: member, 1993-September 2003: secretary to the Research Grants Committee of the Leiden University Fund.
From 1 September 1994 to 1 September 1996: Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Leiden University and Chair of the Board of the Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions (LISOR).
From 15 May, 1995, deputy chairman, and from 25 September, 1995, chairman of the Consultative Body for Theology (DGO) of the Netherlands Association of Co-operating Universities (VSNU), until 1 September 1996.
From 15 May 1996, ‘Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Instituts für neutestamentliche Textforschung’, Münster.
1999-2006 Convenor of the biennual Oxford-Leiden-Bonn Joint Seminar for Biblical Studies (Leiden 2000, Oxford 2002, Leiden 2004, Bonn 2006)
July 2001, President of the 50th Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense, New Testament Section (Leuven, 25-27 July 2001).
From 1 September 2002 to 1 September 2005, Dean of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Leiden.
From 1 September 2003 to 31 January 2007: Member of the Curatorium of the Numata Chair for Buddhist Studies, University of Leiden.
1 May 2004 – 23 May 2011: Member of the Advisory Council of the Humanities Section of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences.
October – November 2005: Member of the Research Quality Assessment Committee for the evaluation of the University of Helsinki Faculty of Theology.
January – June 2007: Chairman of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission for the evaluation of the Academy’s Programme for Extraordinary Chairs 1996-2006
February 2008 - February 2013: Member of the Leiden University Advisory Committee for the introduction of a Minor System in the Bachelor Programme.
1 August 2012 - 24 July 2013: President of the international Society for New Testament Studies.