Johannes den Heijer

Professor Emeritus, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Johannes den Heijer is an emeritus professor of Arabic language and literature at the Université Catholique de Louvain, from which he retired in 2020, and former president of the Institut Orientaliste de Louvain. Since 1979 he has taught Arabic language and culture in various institutions, notably in Cairo as director of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo from 1995 to 2003. He has published research on Arabic historiography in general; Copto-Arabic literature; translations from Greek, Coptic, and Syriac into Arabic; and Arabic epigraphy, dialectology, and sociolinguistics.