Cornelis Gerrit Nicolaas de Vooys

Vooys with his wife in 1918

Cornelis Gerrit Nicolaas de Vooys (born May 26, 1873 in Gouda , † November 6, 1955 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch Netherlandist.

Life

Cornelis Gerrit Nicolaas was the eldest son of the goldsmith Gerrit Cornelis de Vooys (born March 1, 1847 in Gouda; † July 19, 1916 there) and his wife Neeltje Kruijt (born June 29, 1850 in Gouda; † May 26, 1933 in Oosterbeek ) born. His parents' house seems to have been quite stimulating, because his brother Isaac Pieter de Vooys (born February 3, 1875 in Gouda, † February 19, 1955 in Arnhem) became professor of mechanical technology at the Technical College in Delft. After attending high school and high school in Gouda, Vooys began studying Dutch literature at Leiden University in 1893 . It was here that Jacob Verdam , Jan ten Brink and Pieter Jacob Cosijn in particular became his formative teachers. Vooys earned his doctorate in literature in 1900 with the work Middel-Nederlandse legenden en exemplen . He then became a teacher in Rotterdam , Leeuwarden and in 1902 switched to teaching at the grammar school in Assen . In 1915 he was appointed professor of Dutch language and literature at the University of Utrecht , which task he began with the inaugural address Wording en bewording van letterkundige taal .

Vooys had written numerous publications and campaigned for a spelling reform in the Netherlands. In the trade journal De Nieuwe Taalgrids he founded , he often worked as an editor of specialist articles. His numerous publications have also found recognition in the scientific world. So in 1925 he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and later an honorary foreign member of the Flemish Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde . In the academy year 1932/33 Vooys was elected rector of the Utrecht Alma Mater , in which capacity he gave the rector's speech De studie van de woordbeteekenis on March 18, 1933, on the 297th anniversary of the Utrecht University . On October 7, 1935 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent , on October 20, 1947 an honorary doctorate from the University of Leuven and on March 22, 1952 he received the honoris causa dignity of the South African Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. In 1946 he retired from his professorship, but remained active in literature. Vooys died as a result of a traffic accident that occurred on October 27, 1955. His body was buried in Utrecht on November 10th of the same year.

family

Vooys married on August 1, 1903 in Assen with Catharijna Clara Maria Kluit (born September 15, 1876 in Moordrecht; † April 15, 1963 in Gouda), the daughter of the notary Adriaan Kluit (born September 15, 1824 in Dordrecht; † 29 December 1889 in Moordrecht) and his wife Clara Maria Lotsij (born December 14, 1837 in Dordrecht, † December 6, 1924 in Utrecht). The marriage resulted in a son and two daughters. From the children we know:

• Nelly Clara de Vooys (born June 8, 1905 in Assen, † April 5, 1993 in Wassenaar) married. March 6, 1935 in Utrecht with Hugo Boissevain (born September 20, 1904 in Winschoten; † October 11, 1986 in Wassenaar)
• Adriaan Cornelis de Vooys (born January 22, 1907 in Assen; June 28, 1993 in Bilthoven) Professor of Social Geography in Utrecht
• Sophia Arnolda Christina de Vooys (born March 1, 1909 in Assen, † February 5, 1925 in Utrecht)

Works (selection)

• Middel-Nederlandse legenden en exemplars. Bijdrage tot de kennis van de prozaliteratuur en het volksgeloof in de middeleeuwen. The Hague 1900, 1925, Groningen 1926, Groningen 1974
• Middelnederlandse Marialegenden. Leiden 1903 (2nd vol.)
• Historical Schets van de Nederlandse Letterkunde. 1908; 3rd edition Groningen 1910, 5th edition Groningen 1912, 6th edition Groningen 1913; 7th edition Groningen 1915; 10th edition Groningen 1919, 13th edition Groningen 1927, 15th edition Groningen 1933; 20th edition Groningen 1949, 22nd edition Groningen 1953, 23rd edition Groningen 1955, 25th edition Groningen 1958, 26th edition Groningen 1959, 30th edition Groningen 1966, 32nd edition Groningen, 1980. (with Garmt Stuiveling, also under the title: Historische schets van de Nederlandse letterkunde voor schoolgebruik en hoofdakte-studie)
• Letter-literate studies. 1910
• Wording en wording from letterkundige taal. Groningen 1915
• Verzamelde expert advice. 1925
• Nederlandse spraakkunst. Groningen 1947, 2nd edition Groningen 1949, 3rd edition Groningen 1953, 5th edition Groningen 1960, 6th edition Groningen 1963, 7th edition Groningen 1967 (with Moritz Schönfeld (1880–1958))
• Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse taal in hoofdtrekken geschetst. Groningen 1931, 2nd edition Groningen 1936, 3rd edition Antwerp 1943, 4th edition Antwerp 1946, 5th edition Antwerp 1952, reprint 1970, 1975
• Nedersaksische en Hoogduitse invloeden op de Nederlandse woordvoorraad. Amsterdam 1936
• De bezwaren against de nieuwe spelling weerlegd. Amsterdam 1935
• Kanttekeningen bij Dr. W. Couvreur's Beschouwingen about "De herrorming van spelling en schrijftaal in het Nederlandsch". Lions 1939
• Oorsprong, Eigenaardigheden en verbreiding van Nederlands "slang". Amsterdam 1940
• De naamvals -n bij namen van mannelijke Personen en dieren is onaanvaardbaar, èn op wetenschappelijke èn op paedagogische gronden. Purmerend 1941
• Klanknabootsing, klanksymboliek, klankexpressie. Amsterdam 1942
• Inleiding tot de study van de woordbetekenis. Groningen 1938, 2nd edition Antwerp 1943
• Nederlandse letterkundigen tegenover de Franse overheersing. Amsterdam 1945
• Duitse invloed op de Nederlandse woordvoorraad. Amsterdam 1946
• Wisselwerking en samenwerking van Noord en Zuid-Nederland, op taal- en letterkundig gebied. Ghent 1946
• Engelse invloed op de Nederlandse woordvoorraad. Amsterdam 1951
• A lost vastenspel van sinnen uit de 16de eeuw. Ghent 1953
• Middelnederlandse stichtelijke example. Zwolle 1953
• Middelnederlandse prozaverhalen over de geboorte van Jezus. Utrecht 1954

literature

• CB van Haeringen: Cornelis Gerrit Nicolaas de Vooys (Gouda, 26 May 1873 - Utrecht, 6 November 1955). In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. Leiden, 1956, pp. 29-38 ( online )
• M. Schönfeld: Levens report CGN de ​​Vooys. In: Jaarboek Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 1955-1956. Amsterdam, 1956, pp. 298–309 ( Online PDF )
• Corrie de Haan: Vooys, Cornelis Gerrit Nicolaas de * 26 May 1873 Gouda; † November 6, 1955 Utrecht. In: Bio- en bibliographic lexicon van de neerlandistiek. 2004 ( online )

Web links

• Vooy's entry at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
• Vooy's entry in the Digital Library of Dutch Literature (DBNL)
• Vooy's entry in the Catalogus Professorum Academieae Rheno-Traiectinae
• Genealogy link