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Book historian of Dutch origin, active in the Netherlands and the UK From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lotte Hellinga, FBA (née Querido, born 1932) is a book historian and expert in early printing. She is an authority on the work of William Caxton.
Lotte Hellinga was born in 1932.[1] She studied at the University of Amsterdam under Wytze Hellinga who became her husband in 1973.[2]
Hellinga was a senior lecturer at the University of Amsterdam from 1967 to 1976, and General Secretary of the Consortium of European research libraries from 1992 to 2002.[2] Formerly she was deputy keeper of the British Library.
In 1989 she was awarded the Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz.
Hellinga was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.[3] In 1990, she was elected a fellow of the British Academy, and from 1991 to 1994, was a member of its Council.[2]
She is an expert in the work of the fifteenth-century printer William Caxton.[4]
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