Jan Lambrecht (23 April 1926 – 4 March 2023) was a Belgian Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus, Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Biblical Greek at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium and a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
As a theologian, biblical scholar, and prolific author, he contributed numerous studies on almost all the books of the New Testament, but focused especially on the Gospels and the Pauline letters.
[1] Following his return from Rome in 1965, Jan Lambrecht first taught the New Testament at the Jesuit Faculty in Leuven.
But in 1968, when the Flemish Faculty of Theology (Faculteit Godgeleerdheid) was created after the Catholic University of Leuven had split into the Dutch speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the French speaking Université Catholique de Louvain, he joined the newly formed Flemish Faculty.
[3] After his retirement from Leuven, he was a visiting professor at the Biblical Institute in Rome (1995–2000), at the major seminary of Pretoria (2001–2003), at the Loyola University in New Orleans (2007–2009), and at Le Moyne College in Syracuse (2009–2010).