Jan Coenraad Kamerbeek

Jan Coenraad Kamerbeek (4 October 1907 – 13 March 1998) was a Dutch classical scholar, known for his work on the ancient Greek tragic playwright Sophocles.

Biography Kamerbeek was born in Rotterdam on 4 October 1907. He was the son of the geography and history teacher Jan Kamerbeek, and the younger brother of , who became a well-known literary scholar.

Kamerbeek was educated at the Gymnasium Erasmianum in Rotterdam from 1919 to 1925, where he was taught by classical scholar J. H. Leopold. Kamerbeek then studied at Utrecht University, passing his doctoraal examination in 1930. In 1934, he obtained his doctorate at Utrecht University, with a thesis on Sophocles written under the supervision of . Many years later, Kamerbeek explained that he hoped to maintain the school and the standard of teaching that Hemelrijk had established, in order to restore it to Hemelrijk if he ever returned. This in fact happened, since Hemelrijk survived his captivity at Buchenwald, and resumed his position as headmaster in 1945. In 1953, he published the first volume of his commentary on the seven surviving tragedies of Sophocles, which occupied much of his effort throughout the rest of his career. In 1959, he was appointed as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1975, he was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. as well as Stefan Radt and .

Kamerbeek's retirement in 1976 was marked by the publication of a Festschrift volume, Miscellanea tragica in honorem J. C. Kamerbeek. In 1978, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

He died on 13 March 1998 in Haarlem.

Selected publications

Dissertation

Commentaries on ancient texts Seven volumes. ; ; ; ; ;.