title: Cees Datema
text: # Cees Datema
  
  Cees "Cornelis" Datema (1944-2004) was a Dutch academic with special focus on Latin and Greek and the preaching of the early church fathers. He obtained his PhD from Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam in 1970 and his original thesis on Asterius of Amasea is still used in teaching the subject today. From 1987 to 1993 he was the Rector Magnificus of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam following which he joined the board of the Open University of Amsterdam as its chairman.
  
  Next to his academic work and publications, he was also very involved with the implementation of reforming legislation for higher education MUB-Act adopted in 1997 through leading the Datema commission in 1998.
  
  Cees Datema was born in 1944 in Oudehorne in the Netherlands, lived for many years in Woerden before he retired to Amsterdam, where he died in 2004.
  
  ## Publications
  
  1974: UNE HOMÉLIE INÉDITE SUR L'ASCENSION
  
  1978: Amphilochii Iconiensis Opera : orationes, pluraque alia quae supersunt, nonnulla etiam spuria
  
  1982: AN UNEDITED HOMILY OF PS. CHRYSOSTOM ON THE BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST
  
  1983: ANOTHER UNEDITED HOMILY OF PS. CHRYSOSTOM ON THE BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST
  
  1984: Kerkvaders : teksten met toelichting uit de vroege kerk
  
  1985: A Supposed Narratio on Job
  
  1986: A Homily on John the Baptist attributed to Aetius, presbyter of Constantinople AN UNEDITED HOMILY OF PS. CHRYSOSTOM ON THOMAS
  
  1987: De stamelende orator
  
  1988: Towards a Critical Edition of the Greek Homilies of Severian of Gabala AN ENCOMIUM OF LEONTIUS MONACHUS ON THE BIRTHDAY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST Leontius, Presbyter of Constantinople —: An Edifying Entertainer
  
  1989: Paasfeest : vroegchristelijke preken uit de paastijd
  
  1990: Vroeg-christelijke prediking
  
  