Pieter Valkhoff

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Pieter Valkhoff

Pieter Valkhoff (born December 26, 1875 in Heerenveen , † March 10, 1942 in Hilversum ) was a Dutch author and Romanist .

life and work

Piet Valkhoff was a French teacher in Kampen , Zwolle and Hilversum and from 1917 to 1922 editor of the magazine Fransche kunst. Library of Fransche Letters . In 1918 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Groningen and a private lecturer. From 1924 he was associate professor of French at the University of Utrecht , and until 1937 he was also a teacher in Hilversum.

Under the pseudonym L. de Rooy van Heerlen, Valkhoff published the prose volumes Droomliefde (stories, Amersfoort 1902) and Het Liefdeleven van Leo Trelong (novel, Amersfoort 1905).

Valkhoff was a member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (KVAB) and a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Piet Valkhoff was the son of Johan Nicolaas Valkhoff and the father of Marius François Valkhoff .

Other works

  • (Editor) Johann Nicolaas Valkhoff, Nouveau dictionnaire français-néerlandais, néerlandais-français , 2nd edition, Groningen 1902-1904 (676 + 627 pages)
  • (with J. Bitter) P récis de l'histoire de la littérature française , Zwolle 1910, 8th edition 1928
  • De Franse geest in Frankrijks letterkunde , Leiden 1917
  • Over Frankrijk's letterkunde , Amersfoort 1924
  • (Ed.) Charles d'Orléans , Chansons , Blaricum 1932
  • Huit siècles de littérature française , Zwolle 1935; edit By Marius François Valkhoff, Zwolle 1948
  • Ontmoetingen tussen Nederland en Frankrijk , ed. by BM Boerebach and Marius Valkhoff, 's-Gravenhage 1943

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personal data
SURNAME Valkhoff, Pieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valkhoff, Piet; L. de Rooy van Heerlen (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch author and Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Heerenveen
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1942
Place of death Hilversum