Jonas Andries van Praag

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Jonas Andries van Praag (born February 26, 1895 in Amsterdam ; † October 30, 1969 there ) was a Dutch Romance and Hispanic scholar .

life and work

Praag, who worked in the securities business, was recruited for the university by his client Jean-Jacques Salverda de Grave and received his doctorate in 1922 with the thesis L a comedia espagnole aux Pays-Bas au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle (Amsterdam 1922). Praag was in 1927 at the University of Amsterdam , the first Dutch lecturer in Spanish at all and 1930 lecturer (lecturer). At the same time he was from 1931 to 1933 and from 1939 to 1941 private lecturer at the University of Groningen , and in 1928 at the University of Leiden .

In Amsterdam he initiated the award of an honorary doctorate to Ramón Menéndez Pidal . In 1941 he was removed from office as a Jew (by the German occupiers ) and reinstated on May 7, 1945. From 1948 he was associate professor and from 1951 full professor of Spanish (retired 1966).

Praag translated novels by Julio Cortázar and Miguel Angel Asturias .

Praag was a corresponding member of the Real Academia Española (1952).

Other works

  • (with BJ Fernández de la Mata) S paans lees- en vertaalboek , Amsterdam 1953–1965
  • Notched divorced from Spaanse letterkunde , 3 vols., Amsterdam 1955–1960
  • Spaanse grammatica , The Hague 1957
  • (Ed.) Meesters der Argentijnse vertelkunst , Amsterdam 1973

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SURNAME Praag, Jonas Andries van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Romanist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1969
Place of death Amsterdam