Anton Gerard van Hamel
Anton Gerard van Hamel (born January 17, 1842 in Haarlem , † April 15, 1907 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch Romanist , Frenchist and Medievalist .
life and work
Van Hamel, whose family was of Walloon origin, studied Reformed theology in Groningen (graduated in 1863) and spent a year in Geneva , then two years in Utrecht , where his father was a preacher. From 1867 to 1879 van Hamel was assistant preacher and preacher in Brussels, Leiden, Leeuwarden and Rotterdam. In 1879 he received his theological doctorate in Groningen with the work Proeve eener kritiek van de leer der goddelijke voorzienigheid (Groningen 1879).
At the age of 37, a crisis of faith forced him to take a different path in life. He resigned his office, went to Paris and studied Romance philology with Gaston Paris and Arsène Darmestetter , at times with Ferdinand de Saussure , and from 1881–1882 with Adolf Tobler in Berlin.
From 1884 to 1907 van Hamel was the first professor of French in the Netherlands at the University of Groningen (from 1896 to 1897 also rector of the university). Jean-Jacques Salverda de Grave was one of his students . He died shortly after his retirement.
Van Hamel was editor of the cultural magazine '' De Gids '' from 1887 (numerous contributions of his own).
Van Hamel was an honorary doctorate from Utrecht University (1886).
Anton Gerard van Hamel was the twin brother of the lawyer Gerardus Antonius van Hamel (1842–1917), as well as the uncle of the lawyer and politician Joost Adriaan van Hamel (1880–1964) and the ancient Germanist and Celtologist AG van Hamel (also: Anton Gerardus or Anton Gerard van Hamel, 1886–1945).
Other works
- (Ed.) Li romans de carité. Miserere. Poèmes de la fin du XIIe siècle du "Renclus de Moiliens", 2 vols., Paris 1885, Geneva 1974 (critical)
- Conrad Busken Huet , Haarlem 1886
- (Ed.) Les lamentations de Matheolus et Le livre de Leesce, de Jehan Le Fèvre, de Ressons , 2 vols., Paris 1892–1895
- Het Zoeken van "l'âme française" in de letterkunde en de taal van Frankrijk, Groningen 1897 (Rector's speech)
- Zeventiende-eeuwsche opvattingen en theorieën over litteratuur in Nederland , Utrecht 197
literature
- Hans Trapman, Anton Gerard van Hamel (1842–1907). Van Waals predikant en voorstander van 'Atheïtisch christendom' tot de eerste hoogleraar Frans in Nederland, in: De negentiende eeuw 31, 2007, pp. 256–272
- Hans Trapman, Atheistic Christianity. The Case of Anton Gerard van Hamel (1842–1907), in: Religious Modernism in the Low Countries , ed. by Leo Kenis and Ernestine Van Der Wall, Leuven / Paris 2013
Web links
- Literature by and about Anton Gerard van Hamel in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://hoogleraren.ub.rug.nl/?page=showPerson&type=hoogleraar&hoogleraar_id=245&lang=nl (career data Groningen, with picture)
- http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=hame009 (list of publications)
- http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_jaa003190801_01/_jaa003190801_01_0014.php (obituary by Jean-Jacques Salverda de Grave, Dutch, with list of scriptures)
- http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bran038biog01_01/bran038biog01_01_1708.php (Entry in: JG Frederiks en F. Jos. van den Branden, Biographisch woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde, Amsterdam 1888–1891)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hamel, Anton Gerard van |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch Romanist, Frenchist and Medievalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1842 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Haarlem |
DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1907 |
Place of death | Amsterdam |