Monique Mund-Dopchie

Monique Mund-Dopchie (born in Ronse, Belgium, on 21 August 1943) is a Belgian classicist. She is the current president of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.

In 1970 Mund-Dopchie obtained a doctorate in Classical Philology. She went on to work as a professor of Ancient Greek Literature and of the History of Humanism in the Philosophy Department of the Université Catholique de Louvain.[1] In 2008 she became professor emeritus.[2] After her retirement a Festschrift was presented to her jointly with Gilbert Tournoy: Syntagmatia: Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Honour of Monique Mund-Dopchie and Gilbert Tournoy, edited by Dirk Sacré and Jan Papy (Leuven University Press, 2009)

In 2000 she was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, and in 2004 a full member. Since January 2017 she has been president of the Academy.[3]

Honours

Publications
  • Le premier travail français sur Eschyle: le Prométhée enchaîné de Jean Dorat (Université catholique de Louvain, 1976)
  • La survie d'Eschyle à la Renaissance: éditions, traductions, commentaires et imitations (Peeters, 1984)
  • Les survivants de l’âge d’or. Les pays des confins dans l’imaginaire grec avec un aperçu de leur survie dans la culture occidentale (Louvain-la-Neuve, 2001) ISBN 9782874190001
  • Ultima Thulé: Histoire d'un lieu et genèse d'un mythe (Geneva, 2009), ISBN 9782600012348
  • L’Atlantide de Platon: Histoire vraie ou préfiguration de l’Utopie de Thomas More? (Académie royale de Belgique, 2017) ISBN 9782803105885

References
  1. Profile at Leuven University Press. Accessed 8 June 2017.
  2. http://www.academieroyale.be/academie/documents/MUNDDOPcHIEMoniquecomplet2008634.pdf
  3. http://www.academieroyale.be/fr/details-690/relations/monique-mund-dopchie/secorig593/
  4. Numac : 2016708201
  5. Numac : 2007029429


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