Egbert Bakker
Dutch classical scholar (born 1958)
About Egbert Bakker
Born 1958. Egbert Bakker is a classical scholar, university teacher and philologist.
Egbert Jan Bakker (born 12 November 1958) is a Dutch classical scholar specializing in Greek language, literature and linguistics. He currently is a professor of Classics at Yale University.
Career Bakker was born in 1958 in Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD from Leiden University in 1988. Bakker was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences for several months in 1992.
Bakker is cited in the acknowledgments of the first two novels of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
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Dutch classical scholar (born 1958)
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