Meertens Instituut
The Meertens Instituut (Dutch for the "Meertens facility", named after the Dutch linguist and folklorist Pieter Jacobus Meertens ) is a research facility of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam, initially founded in 1930 under the name Dialectbureau .
The institute's areas of expertise are Dutch ethnology , with a focus on indigenous and foreign cultures in the Netherlands and their effects on the language there, and research into linguistic variations ( variations ) within the Dutch population, with a focus on the written ( grammar ) and onomatology .
The office from the novel The office of Han Voskuil , a former employee of the facility, is partly based on the Meertens Instituut.
Web links
Commons : Meertens Instituut - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Official website (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ^ J. Goossens: Het wetenschappelijk bedrijf in Voskuils roman Het Bureau. In: Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren. 1997, accessed July 4, 2020 (Dutch).