Johannes Tielrooy

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Johannes Tielrooy
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Johannes Tielrooy (born October 7, 1886 in Texel , † August 17, 1953 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch Romance scholar and journalist.

life and work

Johannes Bernardus Tielrooy grew up in Amsterdam. In 1904 he went to Paris for two years, worked in a bank and attended lectures at the Sorbonne . From 1909 he taught economics and French in Amsterdam. From 1912 to 1914 he also attended lectures by Gustave Cohen , then he taught French at schools in Amsterdam and Alkmaar . In 1920 he traveled to France as a correspondent for the daily De Telegraaf (where he made contact with Georges Duhamel and Henri Barbusse ), as well as Greece and Turkey. Then he was a teacher in Haarlem .

At the same time at the Sorbonne and at the University of Amsterdam (with Jean-Jacques Salverda de Grave ) he received his doctorate in 1923 with the thesis Conrad Busken Huet et la littérature française (published by T. Un grand écrivain hollandais, ami de la France: Conrad Busken Huet et la littérature française, Essai de biographie intellectuelle , Haarlem / Paris 1923). In France he met Henry de Montherlant and Paul Valéry during this time .

From 1926 to 1932 he was a French teacher in the Dutch East Indies , then in Haarlem, Amsterdam and Zwolle , and from 1934 at the same time private lecturer at the University of Leiden .

From 1938 he was Associate Professor of French Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Amsterdam. He was arrested on January 31, 1942 and taken to the Amersfoort concentration camp for three months . He was officially removed from his professorship on March 1 and reinstated on May 7, 1945. From 1946 until his death he was a full professor of French language and literature at the same university. He spent the last few months before his death on the Riviera sick.

Tielrooy was an honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1951) and a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Works

  • Maurice Barrès , Leiden 1918
  • De Fransche literatuur sinds 1880 , Amsterdam 1924
  • Fransche literatuur van onze dagen. Studies en karakteristieken , 2 vols., Leiden 1928–1936
  • Een Groot romanticus. Chateaubriand. Zijn leven en zijn werken , Haarlem 1936
  • Panorama de la littérature hollandaise contemporaine , Paris 1938
  • Fransche levenslessen. De tegenwoordige literatuur van Frankrijk en hair strekkingen , The Hague 1941
  • Beschouwingen en fantasieën , The Hague 1947
  • Ernest Renan. A great humanist. Zijn leven en werken , Amsterdam 1948 (French: Ernest Renan. Sa vie et ses œuvres ), Paris 1958 (foreword by René Lalou )
  • Jean Racine. Leven en werk. A study , Amsterdam 1951
  • Verkenningen in het land der literatuur , Groningen 1954 (posthumously ed.)
  • ( Reteller ) De vijftien huwelijkse vreugden , Amsterdam 1955 (French original: Les Quinze joies de mariage )

literature

  • Georges Duhamel, Avec Johannes Tielrooy, la France perd un grand ami, in: Figaro Littéraire 12, September 1953 (Dutch: Frankrijk verloor een groot vriend: Johannes Tielrooy, in: Critisch bulletin September 20, 1953)

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personal data
SURNAME Tielrooy, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tielrooy, JB; Tielrooy, Johannes Bernardus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch romance studies and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Texel
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1953
Place of death Amsterdam