Pieter de Jong

Pieter de Jong

Pieter de Jong (born March 3, 1832 in Nieuwveen , † January 25, 1890 in Utrecht ) Dutch orientalist .

Life

Pieter was the son of the farmer Jan de Jong and his wife Pietertje Hoogenboom. A few years after his birth, his father took over a homestead in Hazerswoude, where Pieter grew up. After attending elementary school and boarding school in Kouderkerk, he enrolled at the University of Leiden on September 13, 1851 . Here he studied theology and oriental languages, with Theodoor Willem Johannes Juynboll becoming his formative teacher. In August 1856 he was accepted as a candidate for the pastorate of Zeeland. In place of Abraham Kuenen , he became custodian of the oriental manuscripts of the Warner collection in the Leiden University Library in 1853 and received his doctorate under the same on June 15, 1857 with the treatise De psalmis Maccabaïcis as a doctor of theology. On March 8, 1859, Jong was appointed lecturer for Persian and Turkish in Leiden and was granted the title of professor on July 23, 1866 by royal resolution.

On December 15, 1869, the curators of the University of Utrecht appointed him professor of oriental languages, which he assumed on February 12, 1870 with the introductory speech Het belang dat de beoefenaar van het Hebreeuwsch heeft bij de kennis der overige Semitische talen . In his capacity as a Utrecht university lecturer, he also took part in the university's organizational tasks and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1880/81 . He resigned this office with the speech De strijd voor de vrijheid of the Academie, gedurende de eerste vijftig jaar van hair bestaan, door de stedelijke regering against the prison court . Jong became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in 1875 .

Jong married Cornelia Johanna Godina Le Poole on July 28, 1869 in Leiden (born November 21, 1836 in Leiden, † March 18, 1900 in Utrecht), the daughter of the manufacturer Samuel Jacob le Poole (died February 4, 1800 in Leiden † February 5, 1866 in Leiden) and Cornelia Johanna Gaudina de Coningh (born November 10, 1807 in Delft: † September 20, 1867). Children from marriage come from these:

• Petronella Cornelia de Jong (born February 28, 1872 in Utrecht)
• NN de Jong (* + † November 17, 1873)
• Samuel Johan de Jong (born November 9, 1875 in Utrecht, † November 11, 1875 there)

Works (selection)

• Dhahabi, Moschtabih. Leiden 1863, 1881
• Iln al-Qaisarani, Ansab al-muttafiqa. Leiden 1865
• Thaalibi Lata ifo 'l-ma' arif. Leiden 1867
• Fragmenta historicorum arabicorum, I. Leiden 1869 (with MJ de Goeje)
• Catalogus codd. orient. bibl. acad. Lugd.-Bat. III, IV. Leiden 1851–1877 (with MJ de Goeje)
• Catalogus codd. orient. bibl. acad. regiae scientiarum. Leiden 1862
• De Prediker vertaald en Verklaard. Leiden 1861
• Toespraak tot zijn leerlingen bij de opening zijner lessen op 26 September 1874. Utrecht 1874

literature

• Arent Jan Wensinck : JONG (Pieter de) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 1. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 1227–1228 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1911, reprinted unchanged).
• JONG (Pieter de) . In: Jan Pieter de Bie, Jakob Loosjes: Biographical woordenboek van protestantsche godgeleerden in Nederland. Martinus Nijhoff, 's-Gravenhage 1931, Vol. 4, pp. 558-559
• MJ de Goeje: Levensbericht1 van Dr. P. de Jong. In: Handelingen en mededeelingen van de Maatschappij der Nederlansche Letterkunde, te Leiden, over het jaar 1889-1890, in het gebouw van de Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen. EJ Brill, Leiden 1890, ( online ) and In: Jaarboek of the Koninklijke Academie van Wetenschappen. Amsterdam, 1890, 1–17, ( online )

Web links

• Jong at the Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae
• Jong at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
• Jong at the digital library of Dutch literature