Egbert Bakker

Egbert Jan Bakker (born 12 November 1958)^[1] 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.^[2] He obtained his PhD from Leiden University in 1988.^[3] Bakker was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences for several months in 1992.^[2] He lectured at Leiden University, University of Virginia, University of Texas at Austin, and the Université de Montréal before starting at Yale University in 2004.^[2][3]

Bakker became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.^[4]

Bakker is cited in the acknowledgments of the first two novels of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.