Mark Janse
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Mark Janse (born 1959) is professor of linguistics and classics and head of the department of Arts & Humanities at the Roosevelt Academy, a small liberal arts college in Middelburg, the Netherlands.
Mark Janse studied classics, Hebrew and linguistics at Ghent University and took visiting professorships at the University of Amsterdam and the Ohio State University before coming to Roosevelt Academy. He is visiting professor in Ancient Greek at Ghent University and in Cappadocian linguistics at the University of Patras and a visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in Michaelmas term 2007.
His main fields of research are Ancient and Asia Minor Greek, on which he has published numerous books and articles. In June of 2005, Mark Janse and Dimitris Papazachariou from the University of Patras discovered native speakers of Cappadocian Greek, a Greek-Turkish mixed language that was believed to have died out in the 1960s.
