Fik Meijer

most common credit narrator Fik Meijer attended secondary school at the Bonaventura college in Leiden. He then studied classical languages ​​and ancient history at the then University of Leiden and obtained his PhD in 1973 on a dissertation on Catilina. In 1992 he became professor by special appointment of Sea History of Classical Antiquity at the University of Amsterdam and since 1999 he was full professor of Ancient History there. In 2007 he retired. He is also active as a translator and writer of historical works. He has done underwater archeology in the Mediterranean and taught classical languages. He is best known for his works accessible to a wide audience. His colleagues awarded him the Oikos public prize in 2005. Together with Marinus Wes, Meijer also published a large number of translations of classical works. The best known of these is the translation of the complete oeuvre of the Roman historian Flavius ​​Josephus. In the book of Jesus and the fifth Evangelist, he tries to reconstruct the life of Jesus from the perspective of Josephus. He can also be heard regularly on Radio 1, in programs that include the royal family or history as a subject. Fik Meijer often places current events in a historical context.