Ida Gerhardt
Ida Gardina Margaretha Gerhardt (born May 11, 1905 in Gorinchem , Netherlands ; † August 15, 1997 in Warnsveld , Netherlands) was a Dutch poet, classical philologist and translator.
Life
Gerhardt attended the Erasmus grammar school in her hometown Rotterdam and studied classical philology in Leiden and Utrecht from 1924 to 1933 . She worked as a teacher and received her doctorate in 1942 with a translation of de rerum natura by Lucretius . In 1951 the reform pedagogue Kees Boeke recruited her as a teacher for his reform school Werkplaats Kindergemeenschap , where she taught classical languages until 1963.
She started poetry when she was 30. Shortly before the beginning of the Second World War, she published her first volume of poetry Kosmos , a first complete edition of her poems appeared in 1980. She admired Sappho and also wrote poems in Sapphic stanzas .
Works
- 1940 cosmos
- 1945 Het veerhuis
- 1947 Buiten schot
- 1948 Bij de jaarwende
- 1949 Kwatrijnen in opdracht
- 1951 Sonnetten van een leraar
- 1955 Het levend monogram
- 1956 De argelozen
- 1961 De hovenier
- 1966 De slechtvalk
- 1970 De ravenveer
- 1971 Twee uur: de klokken antwoordden elkaar
- 1971 Achter een woord verscholen
- 1974 Vijf vuurstenen
- 1978 Vroege verzen
- 1979 Het sterreschip
- 1980 Nu ik here iets zeggen like
- 1980 Verzamelde poems
- 1980 Dolen en dromen
- 1983 De zomen van het licht
- 1988 De wording
- 1988 De adelaarsvarens
- 1990 Wijs de weg van de eeuwigheid mij (with Marie van der Zeyde)
- 1996 Hoefprent van Pegasus
- 1998 anamnesis (notes for a speech)
- 1999 Verzamelde poems (in three parts)
- 2001 Zeven maal om de aarde te gaan
- 2001 Brieven aan Céleste (with Marie van der Zeyde)
- 2001 Dolen en dromen
- 2005 Courage! - Letters
Translations
- 1942 Lucretius : de natuur en hair vormen, boek I en boek V ( De rerum natura , dissertation)
- 1949 Virgil : Het boerenbedrijf ( Georgica )
- 1972 The Psalms (translated from Hebrew by Ida Gerhardt and Marie van der Zeyde)
Honors
- 1945 Lucy B. and CW van der Hoogtprijs for Het veerhuis
- 1956 Poëzieprijs van de gemeente Amsterdam for Het levend monogram
- 1962 Poëzieprijs van de gemeente Amsterdam for De hovenier
- 1967 Marianne Philips-prijs for her complete works
- 1968 Martinus Nijhoff Translator Prize for her translation of Vergils Georgica
- 1970 Culturele prijs van de gemeente Arnhem for their complete works
- 1971 Poëzieprijs van de gemeente Amsterdam for De ravenveer
- 1979 Prijs voor Meesterschap for their complete works
- 1979 PC Hooft Prize for her complete works
- In 1998 the municipality of Zutphen founded the Ida Gerhardt Poetry Prize , which has been awarded every two years since 2000.
source
- Ineke Boulte: Gerhardt, Ida . Trans. V. Thomas Quartier. In: Authors Lexicon. Ed. V. Ute Hechtfischer, Renate Hof, Inge Stephan and Flora Veit-Wild. Frankfurt / M. Suhrkamp 2002, pp. 190f. ISBN 3518399187
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerhardt, Ida |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gerhardt, Ida Gardina Margaretha (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch poet, classical philologist and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gorinchem , Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1997 |
| Place of death | Warnsveld , Netherlands |