Annie Nicolette Zadoks-Josephus Jitta

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Annie Josephus-Jitta
(by HM Krabbé)

Annie Nicolette Zadoks-Josephus Jitta (born December 17, 1904 in Amsterdam ; † May 31, 2000 there ) was a Dutch numismatist and classical archaeologist .

Youth, Education and the War Years

Annie Nicolette Josephus Jitta was born in Amsterdam in 1904 as the daughter of the ophthalmologist and local politician Nicolaas Marinus Josephus Jitta (1858-1940) and his wife Sophia Cohen (1865-1911). Her Jewish family originally came from Bamberg in Upper Franconia , but had moved to Amsterdam in 1812. Following a reform edict of Louis Bonaparte , who was then appointed King of the Netherlands by the French, according to which all Dutch people were to be registered with a family name, their ancestor Nathan Joseph had adopted the surname Jitta. She attended schools in Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague . She then studied art history at the University of Leiden and graduated in 1928. In the same year she married the Jewish lawyer Carel Zadoks (1902–1942). Their son Jan Carel emerged from the marriage. In 1932 she received her doctorate in classical archeology at GAS Snijder with the work Ancestral portraiture in Rome and the art of the last century of the Republic .

During the war years she worked at the Koloniaal Instituut te Amsterdam (Colonial Institute in Amsterdam) while her son was housed in the safer province of Friesland . Even his seemingly paradoxical membership in the Nationaal-Socialistische Bewegungsing (National Socialist Movement) was unable to save her husband from the Amersfoort concentration camp , where he died on November 7, 1942.

Career and work

From 1948 to 1963 Zadoks-Josephus Jitta was a part-time curator at the Royal Coin Cabinet ( Het Koninklijk Penningkabinet ) in The Hague. There she was responsible for the processing of ancient coins and gems. In 1963 she became the successor to Hendrik Gerard Beyen, lecturer in Classical Archeology at the University of Groningen . Like others of her generation, Zadoks-Josephus Jitta is also credited with renewing this discipline in the Netherlands. She is also considered to be an important source of inspiration for numismatics in this country, especially the work of Willem Albertus van Es , with whom she published jointly in this regard.

On the occasion of her seventieth birthday in 1974, a festschrift was dedicated to her, the foreword of which was written by Elizabeth Visser , the first female professor of ancient history in the Netherlands.

Zadoks-Josephus Jitta died on May 31, 2000. During her time in office, she wrote ten monographs and more than 200 articles in scientific journals. Her specialty was in particular numismatics and small Roman bronzes.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ancestral Portraiture in Rome and the Art of the Last Century of the Republic . NoordHollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, Amsterdam 1932.
  • De Lotgevallen van den Grooten Camee in the Koninklijk Penningkabinet . In: Oud-Holland 66, 1951, pp. 191-212.
  • Catalog sommaire des cylindres orientaux au Cabinet Royal des Médailles à la Haye . Impr. D'État, The Hague 1952.
  • La collection Hemsterhuis au Cabinet Royal des Médailles à La Haye . Ministerie van Onderwijs, Kunsten en Wetenschappen, The Hague 1952.
  • Graecia capta en de Romeinsche art . In: Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek 1952/53, pp. 7-20
  • Het Romeinse keizersportret. Before the functie . Van Dishoeck, Bussum 1956.
  • Coin treasure from Bargercompascuum (Drenthe) . In: Palaeohistoria 5, 1956, pp. 77-99.
  • Looking back at Frisians, Franks and Saxons . In: Bulletin van de Vereeniging tot Bevordering der Kennis van de Antieke Beschaving te s'-Gravenhage 36, 1961, pp. 41-59
  • with Willem Albertus van Es : Muntwijzer voor de Romeinse tijd . Koninklijk Penningkabinet, The Hague 1962.
  • with Wilhelmus Johannes Theodorus Peters and Willem Albertus van Es: Roman bronze statuettes from the Netherlands 1. Statuettes found North of the Limes . JB Wolters, Groningen 1967.
  • with Hendrik Martinus Reinier Leopold: Uit de leerschool van de spade . De Haan, Haarlem 1968.
  • with Wilhelmus Johannes Theodorus Peters and Willem Albertus van Es: Roman bronze statuettes from the Netherlands 2. Statuettes found South of the Limes . JB Wolters, Groningen 1969.
  • with Johannes Sipko Boersma: Antieke cultuur in beeld . Fibula-Van Dishoeck, Bussum 1972.
  • Romeinse Keizersmunten . Kok, Kampen 1972.
  • with Wilhelmus Johannes Theodorus Peters and Antoinette M. Gerhartl-Witteveen: The figural bronzes (= Description of the collections in the Rijksmuseum GM Kam at Nijmegen 7). Rijksmuseum GM Kam, Nijmegen 1973.
  • with Antoinette M. Witteveen: Roman bronze lunulae from the Netherlands . In: Oudheidkundige mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden 58, 1977, pp. 167-195.

literature

  • JS Boersma et al. (Ed.): Festoen. Opgedrag aan AN Zadoks-Josephus Jitta bij haar zeventigste verjaardag (= Scripta archaelogica Groningana 6). Tjeenk Willink / Fibula-Van Dishoeck, Groningen / Bussum 1976 (pp. XI – XV Elizabeth Visser: Annie Zadoks 70 jaar ; pp. 687–697 list of publications).
  • Willem Albertus van Es : De Mercurius van Dalfsen feliciteert professor AN Zadoks-Josephus Jitta alsnog with hair 85th verjaardag . In: Westerheem. 40, 1991, pp. 98-102.
  • L. Bouke van der Meer : In memoriam. Prof. Dr. TO Zadoks-Josephus Jitta, Amsterdam 17 December 1904 - Amsterdam 30 May 2000 . In: Bulletin antieke beschaving 76, 2001, pp. VI – VIII.
  • Theo Toebosch: Uitverkoren Zondebokken. En familie divorce . De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2010, ISBN 978-90-234-6286-6 [“Chosen Scapegoats” (History of the Josephus Jitta Family)].

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the parents according to Database Joods Biografisch Woordenboek. Joden in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw (Dutch), accessed on November 3, 2018.
  2. ^ Yvette Marcus-de Groot: Kunsthistorische vrouwen van weleer. The first generation in Nederland in 1921 . Uitg. Lost, Hilversum 2003, ISBN 90-6550-766-3 , p. 65.
  3. ↑ a b Biographical information on Carel Zadoks according to Database Joods Biografisch Woordenboek. Joden in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw (Dutch), accessed on November 3, 2018.
  4. ^ Annie N. Zadoks-Josephus Jitta: Ancestral Portraiture in Rome and the Art of the Last Century of the Republic . Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers-Mij, Amsterdam 1932.
  5. ↑ After Bernard Hulsman: Je woont niet op de Prinsengracht (2010), on the website nrc.nl (Dutch), accessed on November 3, 2018.
  6. ↑ Elizabeth Visser : Annie Zadoks 70 jaar . JS Boersma et al. (Ed.): Festoen. Opgedrag aan AN Zadoks-Josephus Jitta bij hair zeventigste verjaardag . Tjeenk Willink, Groningen 1976, pp. XI-XV.
  7. ↑ Muntwijzer voor de Romeinse tijd . Koninklijk Penningkabinet, The Hague 1962; Roman bronze statuettes from the Netherlands 1. Statuettes found North of the Limes . JB Wolters, Groningen 1967; Roman bronze statuettes from the Netherlands 2. Statuettes found South of the Limes . JB Wolters, Groningen 1969.
  8. ↑ Elizabeth Visser: Annie Zadoks 70 jaar . In: JS Boersma et al. (Ed.): Festoen. Opgedrag aan AN Zadoks-Josephus Jitta bij hair zeventigste verjaardag . Tjeenk Willink, Groningen 1976, pp. XI-XV.
  9. ↑ Review by the historian Jona Lendering: Joods, of ze wilden of niet (“Jews, whether they want to or not”) on the website “Mainzer Beobachter” (Dutch), accessed on November 3, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Zadoks-Josephus Jitta, Annie Nicolette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Josephus Jitta, Annie Nicolette (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch numismatist and classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2000
Place of death Amsterdam