H. D. L. Vervliet
Belgian librarian and historian (1923–2020) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hendrik Désiré Louis 'Dis' Vervliet (Antwerp, 31 December 1923 – August 2020) was a Belgian librarian and historian of books and printing.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
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Life
Vervliet was born into a working-class family[5] and received a doctorate in classical philology in 1955.[10] In his career, Vervliet worked as deputy director of the Museum Plantin-Moretus,[11] professor and librarian of the University of Antwerp[12][13] and as professor of book and library history of the University of Amsterdam.[11][14][15] In 1968 he became a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in the humanities class.[10] His wife was Irma Regemortels (1928-2006), also a librarian.[4][16]
Work
In his writing on the history of books, Vervliet was particularly known for his work on printing in the sixteenth century in France, Belgium and the Netherlands,[17][18][19] and the work of Robert Granjon.[20][21][22][23][24] In 2013, Ton Croiset van Uchelen wrote that he "is now generally recognised as the authority on the sixteenth-century typefaces of Western Europe."[11]
After retiring, Vervliet published extensively, in his eighties completing publishing two large volumes on printing in the French renaissance.[18] In his nineties he additionally completed a book on Granjon's floral ornaments,[20] and then a book covering Granjon's entire career published at the age of 94.[21] Returning to the topic of civilité types, which he had published on at the start of his career, at the time of his death he had recently published a paper extending his earlier research on the types of Philippe Danfrie[25] and was working on another paper on Granjon's civilité types.[26][25][27]
A festschrift was published for Vervliet in 1988.[5]
References
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