Pieter Jacob Cosijn

Pieter Jacob Cosijn (born November 29, 1840 in Rijswijk , † August 26, 1899 in Leiden ) is a Dutch literary scholar and philologist .

Life

Pieter Jacob was the son of the naval inspector Adrianus Cosijn (born October 15, 1806 in Gouda; † September 10, 1887 in The Hague) and Johanna Lesire Muller (born March 23, 1809 in Curacao; † July 4, 1878 in Delft). He spent his childhood in Hellevoetsluis , Doesburg , Den Helder and from May 1848 in Gouda . In Gouda he attended grammar school from September 1853 and from May 14, 1855 the grammar school in Utrecht . In September 1857 he moved to the University of Utrecht to study law. However, he soon switched to the philosophical faculty to study literature. Here were Simon Karsten (1802-1864), Jacques Adolphe Charles Rovers (1803-1874), Lodewijk Gerard Visscher (1797-1859) and his successor Willem Gerard Brill (1811-1896) his most influential teacher.

On April 1, 1863 he became vice-principal in Winschoten and received his doctorate on June 26, 1865 in Utrecht with the treatise Commentatio literaria continens Annotatiunculas ad Aristophanis Ranas in classical literature. After completing his doctorate, he became a teacher of Dutch language and literature at the HBS and the high school in Haarlem . Here he was employed at the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal in 1871 , on April 19, 1877 he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and at another time a member of the Society of Dutch Literature in Leiden. On September 19, 1877, he was appointed professor of Old Germanic and Anglo-Saxon at the University of Leiden .

He took on this task on October 22, 1877 with the introductory speech De Study van het oud-Germaansch beschouwd in verband met de beoefening van het Nederlandsch aan onze hoogescholen . As a language teacher he was the author of a large number of university books for the teaching of the Dutch language in grammar schools and high schools. Under the influence of Matthias de Vries he became very productive in Dutch lexicography, historical linguistics and philological text criticism. In addition, in 1898/99, as rector of the Alma Mater , he took part in the organizational tasks of the Leiden University, for which he gave the rector's speech Over Angelsaksische poëzie on February 8th .

On April 17, 1866, Cosijn married Jacoba Maria Plügger (* around 1839 in Zwolle; † November 17, 1904 in Leiden), the daughter of the painter Jacob Plügger (* December 6, 1795 in Enkhuisen; † February 10, 1871 in Haarlem ) and Anne Henriëtte Brunner (* December 8, 1804 in Beukelen, † December 11, 1862 in Zwolle). The marriage remained childless.

Works (selection)

He was co-editor of many domestic and foreign specialist journals and journals. For a comprehensive overview, see B. Symons.

Commentatio literaria continens Annotatiunculas ad Aristophanis Ranas. Utrecht 1865
Cacographie ten gebruike bij het middelbaar onderwijs. Haarlem 1866, 3rd edition 1880
Vergelijkende spraakleer der Nederlandsche, Hoogduitsche en Engelsche talen (vormleer), voor schoolgebruik bewarked. Haarlem 1866
Dutch language art. 1867 2nd vol., (Etymology) (Syntaxis); 2nd ed. 1869 ( 1st volume online ); 6th edition 1881, 7th edition 1886, 8th edition 1892
Oefeningen bij de Nederlandsche Spraakkunst. Haarlem 1868; 5th ed. 1881; 6th edition 1885; 7th edition. 1894
Buttoned Dutch language art. Haarlem 1870; 7th edition. 1894
Some taal- en natuurk. ontdekkingen van dr. J. van Vloten beoordeeld. Haarlem 1871
HJ van Dale, Zinsontleding. A handboekje voor onderwijzers en Leerlingen, 2e druk, herzien en with a report from PJ Cosijn. Schoonhoven 1873; 3rd ed. 1877
De Oudnederland's Psalms. Haarlem 1873
Brief Old West Saxon grammar. Leiden 1881 (1st vol. The Vocals of the Slam Syllables.). 2nd ed. 1st part: The phonology; Part 2: The theory of flexion. Leiden 1893
Old West Saxon grammar. The Hague 1883 (first half: phonology); The Hague 1886 (Second Half: The Flexion), 2nd vol.
Aanteekeningen op den Béowulf. Leiden 1892
Over Angelsaksische poëzie. Speech uitgesproken op the 324th verjaardag of the Universiteit te Leiden. Leiden 1899

literature

FJ Hoogeveen: COSIJN (Pieter Jakob) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 8. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 321–322 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1930, reprint unchanged).
RH Bremmer Jr: Cosijn, Pieter Jacob. In: Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Ingrid Biesheuvel, Wim van Anrooij en Jan Noordegraaf: Bio- en bibliografisch lexicon van de neerlandistiek. 2004, ( online )
B. Symons: Levens report PJ Cosijn. In: Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Amsterdam, 1900, pp. 3–39, ( Online ; PDF; 2.0 MB)
Onze Hoogleeraren. Portretten en Biografieën. Nihgh & van Ditmar. Rotterdam, 1898, p. 353
CA SIEGENBEEK VAN HEUKELOM-LAMME. OCD IDENBURG-SIEGENBEEK VAN HEUKELOM: ALBUM SCHOLASTICUM, ACADEMIAE LUGDUNO-BATAVAE, MDLXXV — MCMXL. EJ BRILL, Leiden, 1941, p.

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personal data
SURNAME	Cosijn, Pieter Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch literary scholar and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 29, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rijswijk (South Holland)
DATE OF DEATH	August 26, 1899
Place of death	Suffer