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Julien Klener is a Belgian linguist born in Ostend, Belgium in 1939. During World War II he was a hidden child in Brussels. Since 1945, being back in Ostend, he went to primary and secondary school and later on studied Germanic languages (BA) and Semitic languages (BA, MA and Ph D.). His main languages being Biblical Hebrew, Accadian, Biblical Aramaic,Talmudic Aramaic, Ugaritic, Arabic and also a non-Semitic language, Indonesian. After a few years teaching on higher secondary level he continued his career at the Dutch-speaking Ghent University where he lectured until 2004. His main teachings concerned: Judaism as a cultural system, Biblical Hebrew (undergraduate and graduate students) Comparative linguistics of the Afro-Asiatic languages(graduate students), Semitic Epigraphy(graduate students)] and General Introduction to Semitic Studies(graduate students). He also studied in Amsterdam, Jerusalem and in 1977 received a Fulbright-grant which brought him to California. During his tenure at Ghent University, he also taught, for about ten years, at the French-speaking University of Liège. He published approx. 120 monographies and articles on different aspects of his subjects, cfr. f.i. Spanish Jewry at the Eve of the Expulsion,pp. IX-XIX, in The Expulsion of the Jews and their Emigration to the Southern Low Countries, Leuven University Press, 1998 and The Throne and Reign of David in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha,pp 455-475 in Mesopotamian History and Environment, Cinquante-Deux Reflections sur le Proche-Orient Ancien offertes en Hommage à Leon De Meyer, Peeters, Leuven, 1994. He was invited as a guest-lecturer in Paris, Madrid, Naples, Riga, Budapest, Venice, Florence, Amsterdam, Jerusalem, Porto Alegre, etc. Although being retired in 2004,〔Ba'al Milim, Liber Amicorum Julien Klener, University of Ghent, 2004〕 he was invited until 2011, to lecture on Judaism at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven. He continued lecturing,〔Program Institute of Jewish Studies, 2006-2009〕 on Biblical-Aramaic and Philological Analysis of Biblical Texts at the ''Institut d' Etudes Juives'' of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and on Judaism at the Instituut voor Joodse Studies at the University of Antwerp,〔Program Faculty of Theology, Leuven, 2007-2010〕 Belgium. He is an honorary active member of the section for moral and political sciences at the ''Royal Academy for Overseas Studies''. He is also active within different,academical and non-academical, Jewish,inter-religious and inter-convictional organisations.As a gifted, voluble trilingual speaker he is often asked to address national and international meetings on subjects concerning his academical specialisms or on matters reflecting upon the present and/or the future of European Judaism, lately f.i.in Brussels(2011),Berlin (2012), in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (2013,2014,2015), at the European Parliament in Brussels and in Ottawa and Montreal (2015). Between 2000 and the spring of 2015 he was the president of the ''Consistoire Central Israèlite de Belgique'', which is the official Jewish umbrella organization representing Judaism vis-a-vis the Belgian State. As such he was regularly meeting with the Belgian authorities on matters concerning local Jewishness. These meetings sometimes happen together with the two other Belgian-Jewish roof-organizations: Het Forum voor Joodse Organisaties from Flanders and the CCOJB,a more French-speaking umbrella. As president of the Consistoire he represented the Jewish community of Belgium at the abdication ceremony of King Albert II and at the swearing in of king Philippe on the 21st of July 2013. The Consistoire was founded in 1808 by the emperor Napoleon I.The official celebrations of the Bicentenary were held in Brussels in 2008. One of the ceremonies was an academic session at the Great Synagogue of Brussels. Thanks to his efforts, the national event was deeply honored, and this for the first time since the Belgian independence in 1830, by the presence of the actual reigning king, H.R.H.Albert II. Julien Klener is also a Board Member of the Brussels-based organization CEJI - A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe. ==National honours== * In 1991: Officer in the Order of Leopold; * In 2003: Grand-Officer in the Order of the Crown and * In 2007,〔Joodse Actueel, 27 April 2007〕 he has been ennobled by the Belgian king, with hereditary peerage and the personal title of Baron, his motto being ''"Memini ergo Ago"'', I remember thus I act. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Julien Klener」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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