Hendrik Wilhelm "Henk" Bodewitz (13 October 1939 – 18 August 2022) was a Dutch Sanskrit scholar.
In 1976 he was appointed as full professor of Sanskrit and Indo-European linguistics and he succeeded Gonda in that position.
[2] In 1988 his teaching assignment was changed to Indian and Iranian languages and cultures, especially Sanskrit.
In 1992 his chair was scrapped in a reorganization in which the departments of Sanskrit of Utrecht and Leiden merged.
[2] Bodewitz was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987.