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André Looijenga
Looijenga, A.R. (André), MA
Areas of expertise
Lexicography, cultural history of languages, Early Modern Frisian, literary studies, Latin and Greek philology.
Biography
André Looijenga (Tersoal, 1982) studied Classics at Groningen University, and holds a research master’s degree in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies. His lifelong fascination for languages, history and literature steered him towards the Frisian language.
From 2011 to 2019, Looijenga has been an editor of the Frisian-language literary journal Ensafh. He has published translations from several languages to Frisian. As a translator he co-authored Meelijwekkend volk, a book on the written sources about the Frisian from Antiquity and the Early Middle Age. He was also one of three editors of Swallows and Floating Horses, an anthology of Frisian literature from eight centuries, with translations and introductions in English.
From 2022 until 2023, Looijenga worked as a lexicographer on the Online Dutch-Frisian Dictionary (ONFW) and was a Latin and Greek teacher on a secondary school. In 2023, Looijenga started with his PhD with a research in the field of cultural, linguistic and social contexts of Early Modern Frisian literary texts.