TUGboat 42:1 (2021)
The Communications of the TeX Users Group

Title: Hendrik Vervliet: 1923–2020

Summary: memorial and summary of work of this noted scholar of typography.

Full text of article: publicly available now.

Author: Jacques André

Publication: TUGboat volume 42, number 1 (2021), page 6

DOI (this page): 10.47397/tb/42-1/tb130andre-vervliet
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Categories: General Delivery - Obituaries - Typography

Difficulty: Introductory

Abstract: Hendrik Vervliet passed away on August 5th, 2020, at the age of 96. In his career, Vervliet was a professor and librarian of the University of Antwerp as well as professor of book and library history of the University of Amsterdam. However, he worked mainly at the Museum Plantin-Moretus at Antwerp where he was still present a very few years ago: he never stopped working and, despite age and illness, was still writing papers. Vervliet was particularly known for his work on the sixteenth-century typefaces in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

References:

  1. Charles Bigelow. Book reviews: Robert Granjon, letter-cutter, and Granjon’s Flowers, by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet. TUGboat Vol. 41 (2020), No. 3, pp. 355–357; tug.org/books/tb129reviews-vervliet.html
  2. Hendrik DL Vervliet. Danfrie Reconsidered. Philippe Danfrie’s (d.1606) Civilite Types. The Library, Vol. 21, Iss. 1, March 2020, pp. 3–45. academic.oup.com/library/article/21/1/3/5809221
  3. James Mosley. Review of The Palaeotypography …. The Library, Vol. 12, Iss. 2, June 2011, pp. 175–178. doi.org/10.1093/library/12.2.175
  4. William Kemp and Henri-Paul Bronsard. The Types of the French Renaissance. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 106, No. 2, June 2012, pp. 231–256. jstor.org/stable/10.1086/680637
  5. Hendrik DL Vervliet. French Renaissance printing types: a Conspectus. London, U.K.: The Bibliographical Society/Printing Historical Society; New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. bibsoc.org.uk/publications/vervliet_printing_types
  6. Hendrik DL Vervliet. The palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected papers on sixteenth-century typefaces, two volumes. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2008. brill.com/view/title/17788

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