Loek Geeraedts

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Loek Geeraedts (2009)

Louis Agnesius Johannes Maria (Loek) Geeraedts (born February 21, 1951 in Venlo , Netherlands ) is a Dutch philologist . From 1989 to 2016 he was managing director of the Center for Dutch Studies at the University of Münster .

Life

Loek Geeraedts was born as the fourth child and third son of Jan Geeraedts (1913–1989) and Do Geeraedts-Peters (1915–1999) in the Limburg border town of Venlo. He grew up there with his siblings Wim (1943–1972), Helmy (1944) and Rob (1947).

Geeraedts is married and has three children: Roland (1981), Sebastian (1983) and Etienne (2001).

education

Loek Geeraedts attended the St. Martinus elementary school in Venlo from 1958 to 1964 . From 1964 to 1970 he was at the boarding school of Bisschoppelijk College in Weert in the Netherlands and on June 2, 1970 he graduated from high school with the Abitur .

Since the 1970/71 winter semester Geeraedts was enrolled at the University of Münster, initially for the subjects of German , history and political science , and later for the subjects of German, Dutch and general linguistics . He also attended lectures and seminars in the subjects of art history , musicology and folklore .

In 1971 he had to interrupt his studies for the Dutch military service until the 1972 summer semester. Since 1976 he has also been enrolled at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen for German and Dutch studies. There he passed his state examination (doctoraal) in April 1978 . A few months later he obtained the degree of Magister Artium at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

academic career

On August 1, 1978 Geeraedts became a research assistant at the Dutch Seminar (later the Institute for Dutch Philology ) at the University of Münster, responsible for older Dutch literature up to and including the 18th century.

In the first few years he published a number of books and essays on the Dutch tradition and the illustrations of Sebastian Brant's ship of fools , on the medieval Van den vos Reynaerde (fox tradition) and on Till Eulenspiegel .

In 1984 he was awarded a thesis on the Middle Low German Stockholm composite manuscript Cod. Holm. Vu 73 to Dr. phil. PhD .

In the summer of 1988 Geeraedts was commissioned by the rectorate of the University of Münster to plan the establishment of an institute for research into the Netherlands. The Center for Dutch Studies started operations in the 1989 summer semester. Geeraedts was appointed managing director.

Center for Netherlands Studies

The Center for Dutch Studies is the only scientific institution in Germany that deals with the Netherlands, Flanders and Germany as well as the relationships and exchange processes between these regions in an interdisciplinary manner in teaching, research and scientific services . It aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the Dutch-speaking area in Europe and to promote relations between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

The center conducts research in the field of German-Dutch relations and publishes the results of the research in its own series such as the Netherlands Studies or in the yearbook of the Center for Netherlands Studies. In teaching, the center offers an interdisciplinary bachelor's degree as well as a binational master's degree in cooperation with the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen . In addition, the center operates the online information portal NetherlandsNet and a regional school project Netherlands .

The Center for Dutch Studies was officially opened on November 9, 1989. Horst Lademacher was appointed the center's first director in 1990. In 1999 Friso Wielenga became his successor. The center was initially located at Prinzipalmarkt 34 (Harenberg House).

House of the Netherlands

In 1992 the city of Münster decided to create a house in the Netherlands in the former Krameramtshaus, which was built in 1589 on behalf of the city's merchants' guild, after the city ​​library had moved out . Geeraedts was entrusted with the planning, renovation and furnishing of the house. On May 15, 1995, the House of the Netherlands was officially opened in the Krameramtshaus.

Since then, the Center for Dutch Studies and the Institute for Dutch Philology of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster as well as the special collection area of ​​the Dutch Cultural Circle of the University and State Library of Münster have been housed there. Furthermore, the office of the Association of Merchants in Münster from 1835 is located in the House of the Netherlands.

Memberships

Geeraedts is a member:

Fonts

Books (as author or (co-) editor)

  • Sebastian Brant, The New Ship of Fools. Dortmund 1981, ISBN 3-8216-1110-3 .
  • Sebastian Brant, the sotten schip. Antwerp 1548, verzorgd en van een nawoord voorzien, Middelburg 1981.
  • The Stockholm manuscript Cod. Holm. Vu 73rd edition and investigation of a Middle Low German collective manuscript, Vienna 1984 (Low German Studies 32), ISBN 3-412-05384-8 .
  • Het Volksboek van Ulenspieghel. Naar de oudste, bewaard gebleven druk van Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten te Antwerpen uit de eerste helft van de 16de eeuw, vertaald, ingeleid en van aantekeningen voorzien, Kapellen / Amsterdam 1986, ISBN 90-289-1155-3 .
  • Franco Saxonica. Münster studies on Dutch and Low German philology. Jan Goossens on his 60th birthday, Neumünster 1990, ISBN 3-529-04517-9 .
  • Renke de Vos - Lübeck 1498. On the history and reception of a German-Dutch bestseller. Munster 1998.
  • The neighbors in sight. 10 years of exhibitions and events in the House of the Netherlands in Münster 1995–2005. Munster 2005.

Associate Editor

  • of the Center for Netherlands Studies yearbook.
  • and the Netherlands Studies series.

Articles (in specialist journals, edited volumes, etc.)

  • The villi end of the fool's chip. On the Dutch tradition of the ship of fools by Sebastian Brant. In: Niederdeutsches Wort 19 (1979), pp. 29-66.
  • To the illustrations in the Dutch editions of Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools. In: Niederdeutsches Wort 20 (1980), pp. 56-72.
  • Van den Vos Reynaerde. A descriptive bibliography of secondary literature between 1944 and 1976. In: Reynaert, Reynard, Reynke. Studies on a medieval animal pose, edited by Jan Goossens and Timothy Sodmann, Cologne / Vienna 1980, pp. 282–323.
  • The Strasbourg Narrenschiff editions and their woodcuts. In: Philobiblon XXIV (1980), pp. 299-327.
  • To the so-called 'Antwerp' woodcut series in the Dutch tradition of Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools. In: Quaerendo XI (1981), pp. 24-33.
  • Ulenspiegel in the Netherlands. Inventory and Desiderata. In: Hermen Bote. Results and perspectives of research. Contributions to the Hermen-Bote-Colloquium on October 3, 1981 in Braunschweig, edited by Herbert Blume and Werner Wunderlich, Göppingen 1982, pp. 93-108.
  • Eulenspiegel in the Netherlands before Charles de Coster. In: Eulenspiegel-Jahrbuch 25 (1985), pp. 11-29.
  • Literary relations at the time of the Hanseatic League. To demythologize a Stammler thesis. In: Language contact in the Hanseatic League. Aspects of language equalization in the Baltic and North Sea regions. Files from the 7th International Symposium on Language Contact in Europe, Lübeck 1986, edited by P. Sture Ureland, Tübingen 1987, pp. 107–121.
  • From Jostes to Goossens. On the history of Dutch studies in Münster 1920-1990. In: Franco-Saxonica. Münster studies on Dutch and Low German philology. Jan Goossens on his 60th birthday, edited by Robert Damme, Loek Geeraedts, Gunter Müller and Robert Peters, Neumünster 1990, pp. 569–585.
  • as well as numerous articles in the yearbook of the Center for Dutch Studies.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Loek Geeraedts: The emergence of the Center for Dutch Studies . In: Markus Wilp (Ed.): 25 years of the Center for Dutch Studies (= yearbook of the Center for Dutch Studies, vol. 25/26). Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-402-14208-0 , pp. 25-35.
  2. ↑ An enrichment for the University of Münster: The only center for Dutch studies ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 870 kB) In: Münstersche Zeitung of October 28, 1989. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-muenster.de
  3. ↑ Well-wishers came with gifts: Inauguration of the Center for Dutch Studies (PDF; 995 kB) In: Westfälische Nachrichten of November 10, 1989
  4. ^ The Netherlands as a subject. Unique center on the Prinzipalmarkt (PDF; 951 kB) In: Westfälische Nachrichten of August 5, 1989.
  5. ↑ The old Krameramtshaus is rededicated in 1994: Netherlands House: Sponsors wanted (PDF; 817 kB) In: Münstersche Zeitung of January 24, 1992.
  6. ↑ Domizil is a "piece of our own homeland": The House of the Netherlands officially opened (PDF; 709 kB) in Münstersche Zeitung of May 16, 1995.
  7. ^ Members of the commission for dialect and name research in Westphalia
personal data
SURNAME Geeraedts, Loek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geeraedts, Louis Agnesius Johannes Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Venlo , the Netherlands