Marchinus van der Valk
{{Short description|Dutch Protestant pastor and classical scholar (1910–1992)}}
Marchinus Hyminus Arnoldus Leonardus Hendrikus van der Valk (1910 – 5 January 1992) was a Dutch Protestant pastor and classical scholar.
Van der Valk studied classics at the Leiden University, obtaining his Ph.D. with a dissertation on the nekyia in the Odyssey.{{Sfn|Van der Valk|1935}} He also held a degree in Theology.{{Sfn|Bremer|1995|p=viii}} He became pastor of Wijngaarden in 1938, of Weert in 1945, and of Rumpt in 1951.{{Sfn|Bremer|1995|p=viii}} He retired in 1976 and moved to a retirement structure in 1987.{{Sfn|Erbse|1993}} He died in 1992, aged 82.
Despite never holding any academic positions,{{Sfn|Bremer|1995|p=viii}} van der Valk frequently published academic essays dealing with Ancient Greek literature, including four monographs dealing with Homeric matters — the nekyia of Odysseus,{{Sfn|Van der Valk|1935}} the text of the Odyssey{{Sfn|Van der Valk|1949}} and two volumes on the text and scholia of the Iliad{{Harvs|last=Van der Valk|year=1963|year2=1964|year3=|year4=|nb=yes|txt=yes}}. — and one volume of studies on Euripides.{{Sfn|Van der Valk|1985}} He became well known for his critical edition of the Commentaries on the Iliad by Eustathius of Thessalonica, sponsored by the Dutch Research Council and published by Brill, in four volumes.{{Harvs|last=Eustathius|year=1971|year2=1976|year3=1979|year4=1987|nb=yes|txt=yes}}.
Works
= Eustathius =
- {{Cite book |last=Eustathius |title=Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem pertinentes ad fidem codicis Laurentiani |publisher=E. J. Brill |year=1971 |editor-last=van der Valk |editor-first=M. H. A. L. H. |volume=I |location=Leiden}}
- {{Cite book |last=Eustathius |title=Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem pertinentes ad fidem codicis Laurentiani |publisher=E. J. Brill |year=1976 |editor-last=van der Valk |editor-first=M. H. A. L. H. |volume=II |location=Leiden}}
- {{Cite book |last=Eustathius |title=Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem pertinentes ad fidem codicis Laurentiani |publisher=E. J. Brill |year=1979 |editor-last=van der Valk |editor-first=M. H. A. L. H. |volume=III |location=Leiden}}
- {{Cite book |last=Eustathius |title=Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem pertinentes ad fidem codicis Laurentiani |publisher=E. J. Brill |year=1987 |editor-last=van der Valk |editor-first=M. H. A. L. H. |volume=IV |location=Leiden}}
= Monographs =
- {{Cite book |last=Van der Valk |first=M. H. A. L. H. |title=Beiträge zur Nekyia. Proefschrift Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden |publisher=J. H. Kok |year=1935 |editor-last= |editor-first= |volume= |location=Kampen}}
- {{Cite book |last=Van der Valk |first=M. H. A. L. H. |title=Textual Criticism of the Odyssey |publisher=A. W. Sijthoff |year=1949 |editor-last= |editor-first= |volume= |location=Leiden}}
- {{Cite book |last=Van der Valk |first=M. H. A. L. H. |title=Researches on the Text and Scholia of the Iliad |publisher=E. J. Brill |year=1963 |editor-last= |editor-first= |volume=I |location=Leiden}}
- {{Cite book |last=Van der Valk |first=M. H. A. L. H. |title=Researches on the Text and Scholia of the Iliad |publisher=E. J. Brill |year=1964 |editor-last= |editor-first= |volume=II |location=Leiden}}
- {{Cite book |last=Van der Valk |first=M. H. A. L. H. |title=Studies in Euripides |publisher=A. M. Hakkert |year=1985 |editor-last= |editor-first= |volume= |location=Amsterdam}}
References
Bibliography
- {{Cite book |last=Bremer |first=Jan-Marten |title=Indices in Eustathii commentarios ad Iliadem pertinentes |publisher=E. J. Brill |year=1995 |editor-last=Keizer |editor-first=Helena Maria |location=Leiden |pages=vii-viii |chapter=In memoriam M. van der Valk}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Erbse |first=Hartmut |date=1993 |title=Marchinus van der Valk† |journal=Gnomon |volume=65 |issue=5 |pages=474–475 |jstor=27691410}}
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