Mark Janse
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Mark Janse (born Aug 31, 1959 in Sas van Gent, The Netherlands) is Research Professor in Asia Minor and Ancient Greek at Ghent University, where he studied Classics, Hebrew and Linguistics. Before coming to Ghent, Janse has been editor of Linguistic Bibliography and Professor of Linguistics and Classics and Head of the Department of Arts & Humanities at Roosevelt Academy, an international honours college of Utrecht University. He is a former visiting fellow of the University of Amsterdam and All Souls College in Oxford, and has been a visiting professor at Ghent University, the University of Amsterdam, Ohio State University and the University of Patras.
Janse's fields of research are Asia Minor and Ancient Greek, language change, language typology and language death, in both the ancient and the modern world, 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 believed to have died out in the 1960s.
