Mark Janse
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Mark Janse (born 1956) is professor of linguistics and classics and head of the department of Arts & Humanities at the Roosevelt Academy, a small liberal arts college in Middelburg, the Netherlands.
Mark Janse studied classics, hebrew and linguistics at Ghent University and took professorships at the University of Amsterdam and Ohio State University before coming to Roosevelt Academy.
His main field of research is ancient Greek, on which he has published numerous books and articles. In June of 2005, Mark Janse and Dimitris Papazachariou from the University of Patras discovered native speakers of Cappadocian Greek, a language that was believed to have died out.