Jan Woltjer (classical scholar)
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Jan Woltjer (classical scholar)
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Jan Woltjer was a professor of Classical languages and literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He served as rector magnificus of that institution five times. Woltjer, the son of a baker, started his career as an assistant teacher at a high school in his hometown of Groningen in 1867. He taught himself Latin and managed to enter the University of Groningen in 1871. While teaching classical languages at a local gymnasium, he wrote his dissertation on Lucretius and was promoted in 1877. On
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Dutch politician
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