Henri Louis Anne van Wijk
Henri Louis Anne van Wijk (born October 24, 1909 in The Hague ; † September 17, 2001 in Katwijk ) was a Dutch Romanist , Hispanic and Lusitanist .
life and work
Van Wijk, nephew of the Leiden Slavist Nicolaas van Wijk (1880–1941), studied French and Spanish in Amsterdam , Coimbra and Poitiers . He received his doctorate in 1946 from Jonas Andries van Praag at the University of Amsterdam with the thesis Contribución al estudio del habla popular de Venezuela . From 1939 to 1955 he taught at the Rotterdam School of Economics, from 1949 to 1954 at the University of Groningen and from 1955 as a lecturer for Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Leiden , from 1979 until his retirement in 1980 as a professor.
Works
- (Ed. With DWA van der Kemp) Lecturas hispanoamericanas , The Hague, Van Cleef, 1941.
- (Ed. With DWA van der Kemp) Sudamérica desconocida , The Hague, Van Cleef, 1943.
- (with DWA van der Kemp) Portugees-Braziliaanse spraakkunst voor Nederlanders met oefeningen en lectuur , Den Haag, Van Cleef, 1944, 1947.
- (Ed.) Antología de cuentos hispanoamericanos , The Hague, Van Cleef, 1951 (foreword by Gerardus Johannes Geers ).
- Herkomst en evolutie van het Spaans in Amerika , Groningen, Wolters, 1955.
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O Papiamento , um dialecto crioulo de origem española ou portuguesa? , The Hague, 1958 (lecture).
- "Orígenes y evolución del Papiamentu", in: Neophilologus 42, 1958, pp. 169-182.
- (Ed.) Zuid-Amerikaanse verhalen , Utrecht, Spectrum, 1959.
Web links
- http://www.mareonline.nl/2001/06/memoriamvanwijk.html (obituary by Jan Lechner, Dutch)
- http://hoogleraren.ub.rug.nl/?page=showPerson&type=hoogleraar&hoogleraar_id=2016&lang=nl (career data )
Individual evidence
- ^ Album Academicum: van Wijk, 1909 - 2001
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wijk, Henri Louis Anne van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wijk, HLA; Vanwijk, Henri Louis Anne; Wijk, Han van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch Romanist, Hispanic and Lusitanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | The hague |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 17, 2001 |
| Place of death | Katwijk |