Prof. Dr. Dirk Sacré
Contact
Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae
Latijnse literatuurstudie / Latin Literature
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, office 06.09 (PO Box 3311)
B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
tel. +32 16 32 49 08
fax +32 16 32 49 09
e-mail
Dirk Sacré
Dirk
Sacré obtained his PhD in Classics from the KULeuven in 1986 under the direction
of the late Professor Jozef IJsewijn. From 1987 until 1998, Sacré taught
Latin at the University of Antwerp, combining this (since 1994) with a part-time
job as a Professor of Latin at the KULeuven. From 1998 on, he teaches solely
at the KULeuven; his courses are in the field of Classical and Neo-Latin
literature. He devotes his scholarly attention to a wide range of topics
in the field of Neo-Latin belles-lettres. His main interests include Early
Modern epistolography, Neo-Latin poetry (16th century to present), and the
Classical Tradition.
He is general editor of the international journal Humanistica Lovaniensia.
Journal of Neo-Latin Studies (Leuven); co-editor of the series Supplementa
Humanistica Lovaniensia (Leuven); co-editor of the series Officina
Neolatina (Brepols, Turnhout); co-editor of the series Pluteus
Neolatinus (Brussels); member of the editorial board of the international
journal Wiener Studien (Vienna); member of the editorial board
of the international journal Calamus Renascens. Revista de humanismo
y tradición clásica (Alcañiz) and of the series Palmyrenus. Colección
de textos y estudios humanísticos (Alcañiz - Madrid); member of the
editorial board of the international journal Vox Latina (Saarbrücken);
member of the editorial board of the journal Kleio. Tijdschrift voor
oude talen en antieke cultuur (Leuven) and of the series Aulos
(Leuven); member of the editorial board of the journal Handelingen
van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde
en Geschiedenis.
Furthermore, he is vice-president of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae
(Rome), a member of the Conseil international pour l’édition des
oeuvres complètes d’Érasme (Rotterdam), a member of the Projectcommissie-Erasmus
(Huygens Instituut, The Hague), a member of the Consiglio direttivo
of the Centro Europeo di Studi Umanistici (Torino), a member of
the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for
Neo-Latin Studies (Innsbruck - Vienna); and scriptor Latinus of
Leuven University.
Current
research
One of Sacré’s current research topics is Neo-Latin literature by and in
the times of Pope Alexander VII Chigi (1655-1667); furthermore he takes
a special interest in the history of Neo-Latin literature from 1700 on;
he prepares an annotated edition of Marcus Faustinus Gagliuffius’s Specimen
de fortuna Latinitatis; together with M. Verweij (Brussels) he is preparing
an inventory of the manuscript correspondence of Erycius Puteanus kept at
the Royal Library, Brussels.
Most
significant publications
- Dirk Sacré, ‘Le tremblement de terre de Messine en Sicile et
Reggio de Calabre (1908) et la poésie néo-latine’ (forthcoming; plenary
lecture at the Fourteenth International Congress of the International
Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Uppsala, 2009)
- Henricus Sienkiewicz, Anthea sive fabula “Eamus ad Ipsum” a Petro
Angelinio Latine versa, quam denuo edidit atque illustravit Theodericus
Sacré, Pluteus Neolatinus, 1 (Brussels, 2010), 177 p.
- Dirk Sacré, ‘Joseph Tusiani’, Vates. The Journal of New Latin Poetry,
2 (2010), 23-35
- Dirk Sacré, ‘An unpublished and unknown autograph letter by
Athanasius Kircher (1601/2 - 1680) to Alexander VII, 1666. A new
element in the dossier on the obelisk of the Piazza della Minerva in
Rome’, Lias, 33 (2006 [2007]), 275-290
- Jeanine De Landtsheer, Dirk Sacré, Chris Coppens (eds.), Justus Lipsius
(1547-1606). Een geleerde en zijn Europese netwerk. Catalogus van de tentoonstelling
in de Centrale Bibliotheek te Leuven, 18 oktober – 20 december 2006,
Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia, 21 (Leuven, 2006), XVIII + 626 p.
- ‘Niederlande und Belgien, III: Die Südlichen Niederlande nach 1575’, in
Der Neue Pauly. Enzyklopädie der Antike. In Verbindung mit H. Cancik
und H. Schneider hrsg. von Manfred Landfester, 15/1: Rezeptions- und
Wissenschaftsgeschichte: La-Ot (Stuttgart-Weimar, 2001), cols 1016-1036.
- Jozef IJsewijn with Dirk Sacré, Companion to Neo-Latin Studies, II:
Literary, Linguistic, Philological and Editorial Questions. Second entirely
rewritten edition, Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia, 14 (Leuven,
1998), XIV + 562 p.
- Dirk Sacré, Sidronius Hosschius (Merkem 1596 - Tongeren 1653), jezuïet
en Latijns dichter. Publicatie naar aanleiding van zijn vierhonderdste verjaardag
(Kortrijk, 1996), 191 p.