Johan van Heesch

Johan van Heesch is a Belgian numismatist specialising in the coinage and monetary history of the Roman empire. He is the Keeper of Coins and Medals at the Royal Library of Belgium, and teaches numismatics at the universities of Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve.[1]

Johan van Heesch

Career

Van Heesch (born Antwerp, 9 March 1955) has a MA in History from Ghent University, and a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). In addition to teaching history, he has also pursued a career in museums, working at the Gallo-Roman Museum, Tongeren (Belgium), the Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels) and the Brussels Coin Cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium. He was the President of the Royal Numismatic Society of Belgium and is a director of the Revue belge de Numismatique and an editor of In Monte Artium, the journal of the Royal Library of Belgium.

Awards

Selected publications
  • (with Inge Heeren) Coinage in the Iron Age : essays in honour of Simone Scheers, Spink, London, 2010.
  • Studies in Roman Coinage, Bucureşti Editura Academiei Române Brăila Muzeul Băilei "Carol I" Brăila Editura Istros 2016
  • "Quantifying Roman Imperial Coinage", in: F. de Callataÿ (ed.), Quantifying Monetary Supplies in Greco-Roman Times (Pragmateiai, 19), Bari, 2011, p. 311- 328.
  • "Providing Markets with Small Change in the Early Roman Empire: Italy and Gaul", in Revue belge de Numismatique, 155, 2009, p. 125−142.
  • "Les Romains et la monnaie gauloise: laisser−faire, laisser−aller ?" in: J. Metzler & D. Wigg−Wolf, Die Kelten und Rom: Neue numismatische Forschungen (Studien zu Fundmünzen der Antike, 19), Mainz am Rhein, 2005, p. 229-245.
  • De muntcirculatie tijdens de Romeinse tijd in het Noordwesten van Gallia Belgica (ca. 50 v.C.−450 n.C.): de civitates van de Nerviërs en de Menapiërs (Monografie van Nationale Archeologie 11), Brussels, 1998 [1999], 352 p.
  • "The last civic coinages and the religious policy of Maximinus Daza, A.D. 312", in Numismatic Chronicle, 153 (1993), p. 65−76.
gollark: It's only better if you have HIGHLY big nodes, due to many pointers.
gollark: That would be(e) beee.
gollark: BEE.
gollark: It should have a pointer to the 1th element, the eth element, the e²th element, and so on.
gollark: Interesting features:- all numbers are hexadecimal always- it has no support for immediate parameters which aren't addresses or something- there are no registers and exactly 256 bytes of memory, one of which is the program counter- conditional moves are the only conditional thing

References
  1. "Johan Van Heesch". www.arts.kuleuven.be.
  2. "Pres Review 2018". The Royal Numismatic Society. June 29, 2018.
  3. "Jeton de vermeil 2016 – Société française de numismatique".
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.