Jan M. Ziolkowski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jan M. Ziolkowski

Professor of Medieval Latin

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1956

Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Profession: linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Jan Ziolkowski (born 1956) is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University and Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
His scholarship has focused on the literature, especially in Latin, of the Middle Ages.
In the United States, he was elected a Member of the Medieval Academy of America in 2008, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010, and the American Philosophical Society in 2017.
Abroad, he was appointed a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2006 and of the Academia Europaea in 2015.
In 2015 he received the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class. He held a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend in 1983, an American Council for Learned Societies Fellowship in 1986, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987-1988.
In 2005-2006 he was a Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
After becoming U.S.
representative to the International Medieval Latin Committee in 1988, he served as Vice President from 1993-1999 and as President from 2000.