UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
- Free University, Amsterdam, 1962 - 1970 (Classics and Spanish)
- Bristol University, 1969 - 1970
DISSERTATION
The Early Greek Conception of the Soul (Free University Amsterdam: 1979)
EMPLOYMENT
- Military Service (Intelligence: Russian), 1970 -1972
- Local high-school teacher, Classics, 1972 - 1974
- Utrecht University: Assistant Professor of Ancient History, 1974-1978; Associate Professor of Ancient History, 1978 - 1990
- University of Groningen: Chair, Religious Studies, 1990-2009
FELLOWSHIPS AND VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
- Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington D.C., Fellow, 1980 - 1981
- Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fellow, Fall 2000
- Visiting Canterbury Fellow, Christchurch (NZ), March 2002
- Inaugural Getty Villa Professor, Malibu, 2006-2007
- Visiting Leventis Professor, Edinburgh, Autumn 2007
- Senior Onassis Fellow, Autumn 2008
- Fellow, Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Cologne, 2010-2011
- Inaugural Gastprofessor für Kulturgeschichte des Altertums, Münchner Zentrum für Antike Welten, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t, Munich, 2011-2012
- Visiting Research Scholar, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, 2012-2013
- Fellow, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt, 2013-2014
- Visiting Professor, Collaborative Research Center / Sonderforschungs- bereich 948, Freiburg/Br, September to December 2014
- Macquarie Ancient Cultures Research Centre Visiting Research Fellow for 2016
- Fellow, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt, Sommersemester 2016
- Fellow, K?te Hamburger Kolleg Dynamiken der Religionsgeschichte zwischen Asien und Europa, Bochum, 2016-2017
- Fellow, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt, Sommersemester 2018
- Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo, February-March 2019
FORMAL LECTURES
- The Read Tuckwell Lectures, ‘Inventing the Afterlife’, Bristol, 1995, published as The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife (London: Routledge, 2002)
- Heuscheuervortrag, Heidelberg, 1996
- Loeb Lecture, Harvard, 1997
- Samson Eitrem Memorial Lecture, Oslo, 1998
- 4 lectures on conversion, Graduiertenkolleg ‘Das antike Christentum’, Bremen, October 2004
- The Martin P. Nilsson Lecture on Greek Religion, Athens, Swedish Institute, December 2010
- Festvortrag, Orelli-Tag: Gedenkfeier für Walter Burkert, 1931–2015, Universit?t Zürich, 30 January, 2016
- Fourth William Ritchie Memorial Lecture, University of Sydney, March 17, 2016
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
- Iconography of Religion, Leiden: Brill, editor-in-chief, 1990-
- Kerk en Theologie, member Editorial Board, 1990-2006
- Feit & Fictie, member Advisory Board, 1993-2005
- Mortality, member International Editorial Board, 1995-2006
- Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha, Leuven: Peeters, editor-in-chief, 1995-
- Acta Antiqua Hungarica, member Advisory Board, 2000-2010
- Ancient Narrative, member Editorial Board, 2002-
- Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, Leuven: Peeters, member Editorial Board, 2003-2015
- Studies in the History and Anthropology of Religion, Leuven: Peeters, co-editor, 2007-
- Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, member Editorial Board, 2009-
- Eirene, member Editorial Board, 2013-
- Revista de Dioses y Hombres, member Advisory Committee, 2018
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Teaching Committee, Faculty of Letters, University Utrecht, Chairman 1985 - 1987
- Dutch Society for the Science of Religion, President, 1991 - 1995
- Rudolf Agricola Institute for the Study of the Humanities, Chairman, 1994 - 2002
- Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, Dean, 1996 - 2000, 2001-2005
- The Future of the Religious Past, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Programme, Vice-Chair, 2003-2011
- Stichting voor Hermetische Filosofie, Secretary, 2006-2016
- Review Committee of Department of Comparative Religion, the Hebrew University, Chair, 2010
REFEREEING
- Bryn Mawr College
- Cambridge University Press
- Classical Quarterly
- Cornell University
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Eirene
- Harvard Theological Review
- Hebrew University
- Jacobs University Bremen
- Journal of Hellenic Studies
- Journal for the Study of Judaism
- Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt
- National Geographic
- Numen, Ohio State University
- Oxford University Press
- Universit?t Erfurt
- University of Cincinnati
- University of North Carolina
- University of Oxford
- Yale University
- Yale University Press
- University of Pennsylvania Press
ROYAL DISTINCTION
- Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau (2006)
INTERVIEW
- ‘Entretien avec Jan N. Bremmer’, Asdiwal 6 (2011) 7-20
FESTSCHRIFT
- J. Dijkstra, J. Kroesen and Y. Kuiper (eds), Myths, Martyrs, and Modernity: Studies in the History of Religions in Honour of Jan N. Bremmer (Leiden: Brill, 2010)