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Oppenraay, Aafke M. I. van

"Aafke van Oppenraay studied Classical Language and Literature, with Arabic and Medieval Latin, at the University of Amsterdam, where she gained her PhD in 1998 with a thesis on the first book of Michael Scotus’s Arabic-Latin translation of Aristotle’s De generatione animalium. From 1976 to 1993 she worked for NWO as a scientific member of staff. Since 1994 she has been working at Huygens ING, where she is responsible for text-critical editions of two Arabic-Latin translations by Michael Scotus: the Libri de animalibus by Aristotle, consisting of 19 volumes, and the Libri de animalibus by Avicenna, also consisting of 19 books."