Cola minis

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Nicolaas "Cola" Theodorus Jean Pierre Minis (born December 9, 1912 in Heerlen , Netherlands ; † April 12, 1988 in Amsterdam , Netherlands) was a Dutch German studies scholar and Medievalist .

Career

Nicolaas "Cola" Theodorus Jean Pierre Minis, son of Ida van Kan and Johannes Hubertus Antonius Minis, a wood buyer at the state coal mines, was born in the province of Limburg in 1912 during the reign of Queen Wilhelmina . His childhood was overshadowed by the First World War . Not much is known about his youth. In 1934 he graduated from the municipal high school in Maastricht . The last years of his school days were overshadowed by the global economic crisis. From 1934 to 1940 he studied German at the Catholic University of Nijmegen . His minor subjects during this time were psychology and history of the Middle Ages. In 1938 he made his diploma (candidate examination) and in 1940 he submitted his dissertation ( doctoral examination).

During the German occupation in World War II , he taught German in Sittard from 1940 to 1945 . During this time he married Marie-Thérèse Josephine Bernardine Hendrix in 1941. From 1945 to 1956 he was a German teacher in Rotterdam . During this time he received his doctorate in Liège in 1946 . He wrote a work on the novel d'Énéas by Heinrich von Veldeke . From 1956 to 1958 he was a lecturer at the teacher training institute of the Katholieke Leergangen in Tilburg and from 1958 to 1960 a lecturer at the Philipps University of Marburg . From 1960 to 1963 he was Professor of Older German Literature at the University of Ghent and from 1963 to 1983 Full Professor of Older German Literature, since 1969 for Gothic Language and Older Germanic Linguistics and Literature at the University of Amsterdam . From 1965 to the winter semester of 1966/1967 he acted as a substitute professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and then held a visiting professorship there from 1976 to 1978. He was also employed as a guest lecturer at the University of Salzburg and was a corresponding member of the Institute for German Language (IDS) in Mannheim . In 1983 he retired.

Research and teaching focus

  • Old High German (Ahd.) And Middle High German (Mhd.) Literature and language studies
  • Gothic
  • Old French literature

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personal data
SURNAME Minis, cola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Minis, Nicolaas Theodorus Jean Pierre (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Germanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Heerlen , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1988
Place of death Amsterdam , Netherlands