H. D. L. Vervliet

Hendrik Désiré Louis 'Dis' Vervliet (Antwerp, 31 December 1923 – August 2020) was a Belgian librarian and historian of books and printing.

[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Vervliet was born into a working-class family[5] and received a doctorate in classical philology in 1955.

[10] In his career, Vervliet worked as deputy director of the Museum Plantin-Moretus,[11] professor and librarian of the University of Antwerp[12][13] and as professor of book and library history of the University of Amsterdam.

[11][14][15] In 1968 he became a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in the humanities class.

[20][21][22][23][24] In 2013, Ton Croiset van Uchelen wrote that he "is now generally recognised as the authority on the sixteenth-century typefaces of Western Europe.