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 Date birth : 1931
Place birth : Netherlands
Office adress : Laan Van Ouderzorg, 97, 2352 HL Leiderdorp,
Home adress : Department of Persian Studies, Leiden University, P.O.Box9515NL-2300 Leiden
More : ohannes Thomas Pieter de Bruijn was born on 12 July 1931 in Leiden, and died on Monday, 23 January 2023, in Voorhout, the Netherlands. He studied Semitic languages, and Islam and Persian and Turkish as minors, at Leiden University. From 1954 to 1960 he collaborated in the Concordance et Indices de la Tradition Musulmane project, which was published under the auspices of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam. He also contributed to the editing of the English version of Jan Rypka's History of Iranian Literature, which was published in Dordrecht in 1968. From 1960 to 1963, he was curator of the Middle Eastern department at the Dutch National Museum of Ethnology. In 1964 he joined the staff of Leiden University, where he took the chair of Persian in 1988. He built up a Persian department that included expertise on Shiism and modern Persian literature, and created a documentation center for modern Iran, under the directorship of the late Kamil Banak.
De Bruijn used to say that the history of oriental studies in Europe was his hobby, but he made an academic specialization of this hobby, publishing several outstanding articles on influential European oriental scholars such as Adriaan Reland (1676–1718), Carl Hermann Ethé (1844–1917), Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall (1774–1856), and Edward G. Browne (1862–1926).
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