Anton van Duinkerken

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Anton van Duinkerken (actually Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Antonius Asselbergs ; born January 2, 1903 in Bergen op Zoom , † July 27, 1968 in Nijmegen ) was a Dutch writer , literary historian and speaker.

Life

Van Duinkerken was born into a Catholic family and initially wanted to be a theologian. As early as 1915, when he was at school, he took this route with the small seminary in Ginneken and then continued his education in Hoeven. During this time Van Duinkerken's first work was created, which appeared in 1927 under the title Onder Gods ogen . He decided to give up his priestly training in favor of a future as a poet and from then on attended the Roomsch-Katholieke Leergangen in Tilburg .

In 1927 Van Duinkerken also worked for the Catholic daily De Tijd and in 1929 moved to Amsterdam , the newspaper's editorial office. He was an important figure in the young Catholic renewal movement and, in this capacity, also an employee and editor of the Roeping and De Gemeenschap magazines . In 1930 Van Duinkerken married Leonie Arnolds, with whom he had four sons and four daughters.

In the pre-war years he became known as a voice against petty bourgeoisie as well as a tendency in Catholic life that he perceived as "slackening" and turned against irrationalism . In 1929 a 10-year debate began with his atheist colleague Menno ter Braak . From 1934 Van Duinkerken also worked for the literary magazine De Gids .

Van Duinkerken's opposition to National Socialism earned him internment in the Sint-Michielsgestel camp during the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1942. Shortly after the country was liberated, he was in a car accident that left his right hand permanently affected. Van Duinkerken shifted increasingly to literary studies and in 1948 became a professor for art history at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht . He gave up this and a similar activity in Leiden in 1952 in favor of a professorship in general and Dutch literature at the Catholic University of Nijmegen , but this step also meant giving up membership in the Partij van de Arbeid .

As a universally oriented literary historian, Van Duinkerken remained present in public until his death. His dialogue with Menno ter Braak and his membership in the Partij van de Arbeid also identify him as an early exponent of the social process that led to the defoliation of the Netherlands.

Awards

Van Duinkerken (1960)
  • 1933 - CW van der Hoogtprijs for poets of the contra-reformatie
  • 1957 - Provinciale prijs voor schone kunsten for Brabantse herinneringen
  • 1966 - PC Hooft-prijs for his complete works.
  • 1968 - Literatuurprijs of Hilvarenbeek municipality for his work Nijmeegse Colleges

bibliography

  • 1927 - Onder Gods ogen
  • 1928 - Verdediging van carnaval
  • 1928 - De Ravenzwarte
  • 1929 - Hedendaagse ketterijen (published 1946)
  • 1929 - Roofbouw
  • 1929 - Vertelsel in de hut
  • 1930 - Achter de vuurlijn
  • 1930 - Lyrical labyrinth
  • 1931 - Het wereldorgel
  • 1932 - Katholiek verzet
  • 1932–1939 - Bloemlezing uit de kathieke poëzie van de vroegste tijden dead
  • 1933 - Welaan dan, beminde gelovigen
  • 1935 - The people lifted hun gebreken
  • 1936 - Hart van Brabant
  • 1937 - Verscheurde christenheid
  • 1941 - legend van den tijd
  • 1941 - Nederlandsche vromen van den nieuwe tijd
  • 1944 - Waaiend pluis
  • 1944 - three-guilty begroeting
  • 1945 - Het tweede plan
  • 1945 - Undique Carmina Sonant; twaalf vertaalde poems
  • 1946 - Ascese of the schoonheid
  • 1946 - Tobias met the angel
  • 1947 - Waarom ik zo think ...
  • 1948 - Concept of Rome
  • 1949 - Antoon Coolen
  • 1951 - Mensen en meningen
  • 1952 - Het tijdperk der vernieuwing van de Noordnederlandse letterkunde
  • 1955 - Over de blijvende waarde van verzetspoëzie
  • 1957 - Beeldenspel van Nederlandse Dichters
  • 1958 - Guido Gezelle 1830-1899
  • 1960 - Vlamingen
  • 1962 - Verzamelde written (3 parts)
  • 1964 - Brabantse come in
  • 1966 - Festoenen voor een kerkportaal
  • 1967 - Gorter, Marsman, Ter Braak
  • 1968 - De stijl van Elkerlijk
  • 1968 - Nijmeegse colleges

Web links

Commons : Anton van Duinkerken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d A. HJ Roes: Asselbergs, Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Antonius (1903 - 1968). In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland. March 13, 2008, accessed October 5, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Duinkerken, Anton van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asselbergs, Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch writer and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergen op Zoom
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1968
Place of death Nijmegen