Louis Kukenheim

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Louis Kukenheim (born September 22, 1905 in Amsterdam , † April 18, 1972 in Leiden ) was a Dutch Romanist .

Life

Grave (katwijk)

Kukenheim came from a Jewish family. His parents were Ephraim Kukenheim (born August 4, 1863 in Amsterdam; † December 31, 1942 in Westerbork) and his wife Esther Koopal (born July 22, 1870 in Amsterdam; † January 26, 1945 in Auschwitz). He attended high school in Amsterdam, where he received his diploma in 1923. In 1924 he passed his A examination in French, in 1925 his state examination B and in 1926 his state examination A. In 1928 he passed the candidate examination for Romance language and literature at the University of Amsterdam , passed his doctoral examination cum laude in 1930 and received his doctorate in 1932 with the thesis Contributions à l'histoire de la grammaire italienne, espagnole et française à l'époque de la Renaissance with Jean Jacques Salverda de Grave (born March 19, 1863 in Noordwijk-Binnen, † March 22, 1947 in The Hague). In 1938 Kukenheim passed his doctoral examination in classical languages, with a focus on Latin. He began his professional career in 1930 as a teacher in Haarlem , Amsterdam, Rotterdam and in 1932 at the Murmellius Gymnasium in Alkmaar. During the Second World War, he lectured for a year at the Jewish Higher Civic School in Amsterdam and stayed in Leiden for three years to avoid persecution of the Jews.

Then he worked again in Alkmaar. On June 23, 1951 he was appointed to the professorship of Romance literature and philosophy at the University of Leiden , which task he took up on September 28 with the speech Euphonie, Logique, Clarté, drie mythen van de Franse spraakkunst . Kukenheim was also rector of the alma mater in the 1968/69 academy year , for which reason he gave the rector 's speech Grammatica-linguïstiek-techniek - een drievoudig snoer wordt niet haast on the 394th anniversary of the Leiden University on February 7, 1969 (Ecclesiastes 4:12 ) held. In 1968 he became chairman of the Jewish community in Leiden, he became chairman of the Keren Jaldenoe Foundation and a member and member of the Association for Jewish World War I Foster Children . In 1966 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor , in 1966 he received the Prix de la langue francaise and was thus Laureat de l'Academie Francaise and in 1970 he was appointed Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques .

Kukenheim married in 1945 with Lucy Marie Gorter (born September 21, 1905 in Paris; † January 19, 1992 in Leiden), the daughter of Evert Gorter (born February 19, 1881 in Utrecht; † February 17, 1954 in Leiden) and his first wife Jeannette Elisabeth Keijser (also Keyser * September 19, 1879 in Amsterdam; † June 27, 1965). The sons Eduard Everet Kukenheim (born February 12, 1947; † August 27, 2012 in Amsterdam) and Willem Samuel Kukenheim (born February 1, 1949 in Alkmaar) came from the marriage.

Works

  • Contributions à l'histoire de la grammaire grecque, latine et hébraïque à l'époque de la Renaissance. Leiden 1951
  • Euphony, logic, clarity. The three myths van de Franse spraakkunst. Speech uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van gewoon Hoogleraar in de Romaanse Taal- en Letterkunde aan de Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden on September 28, 1951. Leiden 1951
  • Guide de la littérature française du Moyen Age. (with Henri Roussel ), Leiden 1957, 1959, 1963 (German: Munich 1968, 1973; Berlin East 1969)
  • Esquisse historique de la linguistique française et de ses rapports avec la linguistique générale. Leiden 1962, 2nd edition 1966
  • Judeo-gallica ou gallo-judaïca? Avec une bibliographie chronologique de 1750 à 1962. in: Neophilologus 47, 1963
  • Grammaire historique de la langue française. 2 vols., Leiden 1967–1968
  • Grammatica, linguistiek, techniek. Speech uitgesproken op 7 februari 1969. Leiden 1969
  • Speech, uitgesproken door de rector magnificus prof. dr. L. Kukenheim Ezn. bij de overdracht van het rectoraat aan prof. dr. J. Goslings op 1 sept. 1969. Leiden 1969

literature

  • EF Konrad Koerner in: Historiographia Linguistica 1, 1974, pp. 285-286
  • ALBUM SCHOLASTICUM ACADEMIAE LUGDUNO-BATAVAE MCMXL - MCMLXXIV. Leidsch Universiteits Fonds, Leiden, 1975, p. 68

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. L. Kukenheim hoogleraar Romaanse taal- en letterkunde. In: Leidsch Dagblad. from July 4, 1951, p. 2 ( online )
  2. ↑ Prof. Kukenheim as well as the seed factory study. In: Nieuwe Leidsche Courant. from February 7, 1969, p. 3 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Kukenheim, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1972
Place of death Suffer