Gaius Licoppe
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Gaius Licoppe, born 27 Juny 1931, is a Belgian radiologist from Brussels who has dedicated his life to the promotion of the Latin language as the common patrimony of a united Europe and the only cultural factor that can unify Europe
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In 1983 he organised in Belgium one of the seminars of the Societas Latin, of which he had by now become a member. That year, he also produced a film of Plautus's comedy Rudens.
In 1984 he started publishing a new Latin periodical, Melissa with the help of Francisca Deraedt. That year, he opened the "Domus Latina" as a meeting point of Latin speakers from Europe and America.
In 1986 he created the "Fundatio Melissa" for perennial Latinity.
In 1987 he invited the Finnish Professor Tuomo Pekkanen to speak on the premises of the European Community and there started a strong relationship with Latin speakers in Finland.
He is a strenuous advocate of the use of Latin, especially in the context of the European Union. In his own words, (the Greco-Roman culture and the Latin language are the only common patrimony of the peoples of Europe).
In his honour, Alanus Divutius (pen name of Alain Van Dievoet), a Latin poet from Brussels, composed this poem:
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
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Latin biography
In 1973 he became interested in Latin as a living language after coming upon a copy of the Assimil method published by Clément Desessard Lingua Latina sine molestia. He then subscribed to the Latin periodicals Vita Latina and Latinitas, after which he soon started to attend the spoken Latin seminars which Dr. Cælestis Eichenseer had been celebrating every year from 1973 through his "Societas Latina".In 1983 he organised in Belgium one of the seminars of the Societas Latin, of which he had by now become a member. That year, he also produced a film of Plautus's comedy Rudens.
In 1984 he started publishing a new Latin periodical, Melissa with the help of Francisca Deraedt. That year, he opened the "Domus Latina" as a meeting point of Latin speakers from Europe and America.
In 1986 he created the "Fundatio Melissa" for perennial Latinity.
In 1987 he invited the Finnish Professor Tuomo Pekkanen to speak on the premises of the European Community and there started a strong relationship with Latin speakers in Finland.
He is a strenuous advocate of the use of Latin, especially in the context of the European Union. In his own words, (the Greco-Roman culture and the Latin language are the only common patrimony of the peoples of Europe).
In his honour, Alanus Divutius (pen name of Alain Van Dievoet), a Latin poet from Brussels, composed this poem:
Books
- Calepinus novus, 2002
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See also
- Recent LatinRecent LatinContemporary Latin is the form of the Latin language used from the end of the 19th century through to the present. Various kinds of contemporary Latin can be distinguished. On the one hand there is its symbolic survival in areas like taxonomy and others as the result of the widespread presence of...