Frits van Oostrom
Frits Pieter van Oostrom (born May 15, 1953 in Utrecht ) is a Dutch literary scholar specializing in Dutch literature of the Middle Ages. He is a professor at Utrecht University .
Oostrom went to high school in Leiden and received his doctorate from Leiden University in 1981. Then he was there professor of Dutch literature (up to Romanticism). In 2002 he became a professor at the University of Utrecht.
In 1999 he was visiting professor at Harvard University . He headed a commission that published the Canon van Nederland in 2006 .
In 1995 he received the Spinoza Prize . He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, of which he was president from 2005 to 2008. He is honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Brussels, the University of Antwerp and the Open University.
In 2010 he stepped down from the board of directors of the Reichsmuseum because they wanted to buy the pistol with which Pim Fortuyn was shot.
Fonts
- Maerlants wereld, Amsterdam: Prometheus 1996 (the book about Jacob van Maerlant received the AKO literature prize in 1996)
- Stemmen op script. Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse literatuur vanaf het begin tot 1300, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2006
- Wereld in woorden. Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse literatuur 1300-1400. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2013
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frits van Oostrom away bij het Rijksmuseum, NRC, September 20, 2010 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oostrom, Frits van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oostrom, Frits Pieter van (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Utrecht |