Hendrik Desirée Louis Vervliet

Hendrik Désiré Louis 'Dis' Vervliet (Antwerp, 31 December 1923 – August 2020) was a Belgian librarian and historian of books and printing.

Life Vervliet was born into a working-class family In his career, Vervliet worked as deputy director of the Museum Plantin-Moretus, and as professor of book and library history of the University of Amsterdam. In 1968 he became a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in the humanities class.

Work In his writing on the history of books, Vervliet was particularly known for his work on printing in the sixteenth century in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, and the work of Robert Granjon. In 2013, Ton Croiset van Uchelen wrote that he "is now generally recognised as the authority on the sixteenth-century typefaces of Western Europe."

A festschrift was published for Vervliet in 1988.