Michael Jan de Goeje

MJ de Goeje.

Michael Jan de Goeje also: Michael Johan de Goeje, Michaël Jan de Goeje (born August 13, 1836 in Dronrijp ( Friesland ), † May 17, 1909 in Leiden ) was a Dutch orientalist of Frisian origin.

Life

Michael Jan was born as the son of pastor Pieter de Goeje (* June 4, 1806 in Enkhuizen, † January 8, 1854 in Heerenveen) and his wife Wilhelmina Bernardina von Schilling, who was married on March 9, 1832 in Leiden (* August 1, 1810 in Lingen , † May 10, 1872 in Leiden). As the younger son of a large middle-class family, he initially trained as a pharmacist. Still, he didn't like this perspective. He attended the grammar school in Enkhuizen in 1853 , where he obtained his university entrance qualification. On September 14, 1854, he enrolled at the University of Leiden to study theology. But since he saw no possibility of obtaining a pastor's office, he switched to studying literature. His formative teachers were Reinhart Dozy , Carel Gabriel Cobet , Theodoor Willem Johannes Juynboll and Matthias de Vries .

After passing various exams, he received his doctorate there on October 12, 1860 with a dissertation on the geography of North Africa with the title Specimen literarium inaugurale exhibens Descriptionem al-Magribi sumtam ex libro regionum al-Jaqubii versione et annotatione illustratam for a doctorate in philosophical sciences. In 1859 he became adjutant to the Warneriani legacy at the University Library in Leiden and prepared a catalog of the oriental manuscripts available there. In 1862 he completed an educational trip to Oxford , where he studied the Arabic scripts available there and made the acquaintance of Friedrich Max Müller and William Wright . On his return home on June 6, 1866, he was appointed associate professor for Syriac, Chaldean and Arabic at the University of Leiden. He took on this task on October 6, 1866 with the inaugural speech De belangrijkheid vd beoefening der Arabische Taalen leadership .

On July 5, 1869 he became a full professor in the field mentioned and from 1877 on taught only Arabic. In his function as a university lecturer in Leiden, he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1881/82 . He put down this task with the speech Het Vaderland of the Semietische Volken . He became a district school council, in 1879 a member of the council in Leiden and was involved in the Ethnographic Museum in Leiden. His work on a historical group of Ismailis : the Karmatians of Bahrain (1886) is regarded as the standard work . His major achievement is that he introduced modern textual criticism to Arabic studies, made many contributions to the lexicography of Arabic studies and examined the relationship between the Orient and Europe. He retired from his professorship on August 11, 1906 and retired on September 17, 1906. He died of old age and his body was buried on May 21, 1909 in the family grave at the Groenesteeg cemetery in Leiden.

Goeje was a member of several domestic and foreign learned societies of his time. In 1863 he became a member of the Society for Dutch Literature in Leiden, in the same year a member of the Zeeland Society of Sciences in Vlissingen , on May 3, 1869 he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences , in 1872 a corresponding member and in 1888 a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences Goettingen . From 1878 he was an honorary member of the American Oriental Society in Hartford, 1881 a member of the Provincial Utrecht Society of Arts and Sciences, 1882 a foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest , an honorary member of the German Oriental Society , 1885 an honorary member of the Royal Asiatic Society in London, 1886 corresponding , and 1900 foreign member of the Institut de France , corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg , 1890 member of the Dutch Society of Sciences in Haarlem, 1894 member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences in Copenhagen , corresponding member of the Royal Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences in Jakarta, 1904 corresponding member of the British Academy and Asiatic Society of Bengal , 1905 corresponding member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences and member of the Société asiatique in Paris.

He has also received many awards for his work. In 1882 he became a Knight of the Medjidie Order of Turkey, 1889 Commander of the North Star Order of Sweden, 1889 Knight of the Medjidie Order in Egypt, 1891 Knight, and in 1906 Commander of the Order of the Dutch Lion , in 1895 he became a Knight of the Order Pour le Mérite for Science and arts , 1896 officer of the Legion of Honor and 1906 officer de l'Instruction publique. In 1896 he received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University .

family

Goeje married Wilhelmina Henriette Leembruggen on June 27, 1867 in Leiden (* December 21, 1841 in Leiden, † June 22, 1900 in Leiden), the daughter of the Leiden city council Adrianus Cornelis Leembruggen (* March 9, 1815 in Leiden, † August 17, 1877 ibid) and his wife Carolina Maria Pluijgers (born June 17, 1815 in Leiden, † September 28, 1860 ibid, married April 23, 1836 ibid). There are five children from the marriage. From the children we know:

Willem Georg de Goeje I (1868–1868)
Willem Georg de Goeje II (1869–1869)
Jan Willem de Goeje (born January 4, 1871 in Leiden, † 1946) married. I. Margaretha Visser, II Jacoba Pieternella Grüschke
Wilhelmina Margaretha Agatha (Agaath) de Goeje (1873–1936) married. with GJ Woltman in Heerenveen
Claudius Henricus de Goeje (born May 4, 1879 in Leiden, † June 8, 1955 in The Hague) he became professor for the language and ethnology of Surinam and Curacao at the University of Leiden, married. JC van Exter

Works (selection)

Goeje had written various articles in the specialist journals de Gids, the magazine of the German Oriental Society and the magazine of the Royal Dutch Society of Sciences. Goeje was also the editor of the Encyclopaedia of Islam (vols. I.-iii.) And wrote for the 9th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica . As far as is known, his works are listed here:

Specimen suffered. inaug. exhibens descriptionem al-Magribi sumtam ex libro regionum al-Jaqubii versione et annotatione illustratum. Leiden 1860
Fragmenta historicorum Arabicorum. 1869-1871
Diwan of Moslim ibn al-Wãlid. 1875
Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum . 1870-1894, 8 vols.
Mémoire sur les Carmathes du Bahraïn et les Fatimides, 1886 (2nd ed.)
Annals of Tabari . 1879-1901, 15 vols.
Beladzori, Boek der Veroveringen.
Edrisi Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne. 1866 (edited with Dozy)
Ibn Koteiba's Boek of the Poet.
Mémories d'histoire et geogr. Orient.
edition of Ibn Qutaiba 's biographies. 1904
edition of the travels of Ibn Jubayr 1907

literature

Th. Houtsma: Levensbericht van MJ de Goeje. In: Handelingen en mededeelingen van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden, over het jaar 1909-1910. EJ Brill, Leiden 1910, p. 34 ff, ( online )
AJ Wensinck: GOEJE (Michael Jan de) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 1. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 946–947 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1911, reprinted unchanged).
C. van Vollenhoven: Professor De Goeje. † (1836-1909). In: Jaarboekje voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde van Leiden en Rijnland. AW Sijthoff, Leiden, 1910, 10th year ( Online ; PDF; 4.7 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME	Goeje, Michael Jan de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch arabist, orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 13, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dronrijp , Friesland
DATE OF DEATH	May 17, 1909
Place of death	Suffer