Jan Pieter Nicolaas Land

Jan Pieter Nicolaas Land

Jan Pieter Nicolaas Land (born April 23, 1834 in Delft , † April 30, 1897 in Arnhem ) was a Dutch orientalist and philosopher.

Life

Jan Pieter Nicolaas was born as the third child and eldest son of the doctor Axel Lourents Land († April 1841 in Leeuwarden) and Catharina Elizabeth Hulsbeek. His ancestors came from Norway. After the death of his father, his mother moved to Dokkum , where Land attended the day school, then he switched to the Herrenhutschule in Neuwied in 1843 and to the municipal grammar school in Leeuwarden in 1846 . In 1850 he began studying philosophy and theology at the University of Leiden . Here he had attended the lectures of Reinhart Dozy , Theodoor Willem Johannes Juynboll , Abraham Kuenen , Carel Gabriel Cobet , Frederik Kaiser , Jan Hendrik Stuffken and Johannes Henricus Scholten . On October 5, 1857, he was presented with an examination and interpretation of the Old Testament Disputatio de carmine Jacobi, Gen. XLIX to the doctor of theology doctorate . After receiving his doctorate, he continued his studies at the University Library in Leiden and at the British Museum in London.

In 1859 he moved to Amsterdam, where he became secretary of the Dutch Bible Society. In 1864 he became professor of philosophy and oriental languages ​​at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam , which task he took on on October 10, 1864 with a speech about the zamenhang tusschen weten en looped . On May 11, 1872 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences , on September 10, 1872 he was appointed professor of logic, metaphysics and history of the Syrian and Semitic languages, which position he held on November 18, 1872 of the Rede de Eenheid van entered the Geest . He also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the alma mater in 1885/86 . He put this task down with the speech over de Oude en de Nieuwe Universiteit . In addition to his research, he also dealt with music. In the field of musicology, he studied Javanese and Arabic music. So he became a member of the Felix Meritis Society in Amsterdam. For health reasons, due to a stroke, he retired on December 30, 1895 and retired on January 1, 1896.

His daughter Louise Land (born February 12, 1874 in Leiden) is known from his marriage to Wilhelmina Cremer (born July 26, 1844 in Zwolle, † 1919) on July 7, 1870 in Arnhem.

Works (selection)

• Joannes Bishop of Ephesus, the first Syrian church historian. Leiden 1856
• Disputatio de carmine Jacobi, Gen. XLIX. Leiden 1857
• Anecdota syriaca. Leiden 1862-75, 4th vol
• Redevoering over the zamenhang tusschen looped en weten. Amsterdam 1864
• Ons hooger onderwijs. Amsterdam 1868
• Hebreeuwsche Grammatica. Amsterdam 1869, in English London 1876
• Over uitspraak en spelling, voornamelijk in de Nederl. Taal. Amsterdam 1870
• Het keerpunt in de wijsgeerige ontwikkeling van Dr. A. Pierson. Amsterdam 1871
• De hoofdstad zetel van Hooger Onderwijs. Amsterdam 1872
• De eenheid van den geest. Leiden 1873
• Beginning with the analytical logica. Leiden 1873
• Ter Nagedachtenis van Spinoza. Leiden 1877, English London 1882
• B. de Spinoza Opera. The Hague 1882–1883, 2nd vol., 2nd edition The Hague 1895, 3rd vol. (With Vlotens)
• Research on the history of the Gamme arabe. Leiden 1884, Amsterdam 1889
• Het Luitboek van Thysius. Amsterdam 1889
• Inleiding tot de wijsbegeerte. The Hague 1889
• Over onze kennis the javaansche muziek. Amsterdam 1891
• Joannis episcopi Ephesi Commentarii de beatis orientalibus.
• Arnold Geulincx and his philosophy. The Hague 1891–93, 3rd vol., 1895
• De Wijsbegeerte in de Nederlanden. The Hague 1899

literature

• BJH Ovink: Levensbericht van Jan Pieter Nicolaas Land. In: Handelingen en mededeelingen van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden, over het jaar 1897-1898. EJ Brill, Leiden 1898, pp. 350–376, ( online )
• CB Spruyt: Levens report JPN Land. In: Jaarboek van de Kon. Academy van Wetenschappen. 1898, Amsterdam, pp. 3–62 ( Online PDF )
• J. Nat: LAND (Jan Pieter Nicolaas) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 9. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 573–574 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1933, reprinted unchanged).
• LAND (Jan Pieter Nicolaas) In: Jan Pieter de Bie, Johannes Lindeboom and GP van Itterzon: Biographical woordenboek van protestantsche godgeleerden in Nederland. Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1943, Vol. 5, pp. 521-528, ( online )
• JG Schenderling: LAND, JAN PIETER NICOLAAS. In: Biografisch Lexicon voor de Geschiedenis van het Nederlands Protestantisme. Uitgeverij Kok, Kampen, 2001, ISBN 9043503843 , pp. 328–329

Web links

• Record at the digital library of Dutch literature
• Record at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)