University / institution contact details
Position: Lecturer/Professor
Universität Basel
Departement für Sprach-und Literaturwissenschaften, Seminar für Iberoromanistik
Maiengasse 51
4056 Basel
Switzerland
+41 61 207 12 81
https://iberoromanistik.philhist.unibas.ch/de/
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
1. Bible and Related Literature: TR
Bible translations: TR
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
Early Modern: TR
Historiography: TR
3. Religion and Religious Movements: TR
31: Comparative Religion: R
32: Liturgy and prayer: R
4. Jewish Thought and Philosophy: TR
35: Modern Philosophy: R
37: Ethics, including medical ethics: R
6. Literature (other than Biblical and Rabbinic): TR
44: Early modern (including scientific, poetry): R
7. Languages: TR
56: Ladino: R
10. Jewish Studies and Resources: TR
Bibliography: TR
82: Hebrew Printing: R
85: On-line resources: R
11. Digital Humanities: TR
Digital humanities: TR
Other subjects:
Conversos and Sephardim: Teach and Research
Description
HARM DEN BOER is a Full Profesor for Iberoromance Literature at the University of Basel. He has researched and published extensively on Early Modern Iberian Literature with a particular focus on the literature, culture and intellectual history of Iberian Jews and Conversos.
He is author of La literatura sefardí de Amsterdam (Alcalá de Henares, 1996, a published version of his Ph.D. of 1992) and of the bibliography Spanish and Portuguese Printing in the Northern Netherlands 1584-1825 (Leiden: IDC/Brill, 2003 CD-Rom); he also coordinates the collection Sephardic Editions (Leiden: IDC/Brill, from 2004 onwards).
Den Boer published monographic studies and editions together with Kenneth Brown (Edition and Studies on David Valle de Saldaña, Abraham Gómez Silveira). In 2012 Jorge Ledo and Den Boer discovered the influential but hitherto ‘lost’ Spanish Translation of Erasmus’ Moria, now published at Brill (2014), as the first title of the series “Heterodoxia Iberica” coordinated by both scholars.
Current Intrests: Cryptojudaism in Literature, the existence and validity of a ‘Converso Canon’, Black Legend and Exile, Sacred Texts and Cultural Transference; Iberian Jewish Preaching; Polemics and literary devices, Spanish and Jewish translations of Bible and Literature: “Mapping the Scriptures in Sephardic Culture” (Research Project, SNF funded 2022-2026).
See: https://iberoromanistik.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/harm-den-boer/
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