Tom Albert Rompelman

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Tom Albert Rompelman (born August 12, 1906 in Leipzig ; † March 4, 1984 in Bilthoven ) was a Dutch German studies scholar and literary scholar .

Life

The son of a Dutch father and a German mother grew up in his hometown, where he attended the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium from 1917 , which he graduated from in 1926. In the same year the family moved to the Netherlands, where Rompelman, encouraged by his teachers at the grammar school, began studying German language and literature at the University of Amsterdam . In 1929 he became a research assistant and in 1932 passed his master's degree with cum laude . His doctorate took place on December 19, 1932.

In 1941 he married Marie Whites. The marriage had a son.

In 1942 he received a private lectureship for the German language and literature of the Middle Ages at the University of Amsterdam . In 1944 he was appointed professor for German linguistics at the University of Groningen . He gave his inaugural lecture on November 10, 1945 . In addition to the German language and literature, he also dealt with old Germanic poetry and mythology as well as comparative linguistics .

In 1955 he was elected rector of the University of Groningen. In 1961 he followed a call to the University of Utrecht , where he took over the professorship for German linguistics and German literature of the Middle Ages. In the course of the student movement , his subject was strongly rejected, so that on September 1, 1969 , he lost his chair .

Since then he has lived secluded with his wife in Bilthoven and devoted himself to researching the Nibelungenlied , Middle High German poetry and the life and work of Wilhelm Raabe .

After the death of his wife in 1981, his health became increasingly weakened, and he died as a result of falling down stairs.

Fonts

  • Heliandproblemen , Wolters, Groningen 1956
  • Lambert ten Kate as a Germanist , Noord-Hollandsche Uitg. Maatsch, Amsterdam 1952
  • Germanistiek en germanophilie , (inaugural lecture), Wolters, Groningen 1945
  • Verval en vernieuwing in de Duitse literatuur van de dertiende eeuw , Clausen, Amsterdam 1942
  • The Wartburg War , (dissertation), HJ Paris, Amsterdam 1939

Essays

  • Form and function of the past tense in Germanic. In: Neophilologus, Vol. 37, 1953 (Jan.), pp. 65-83
  • Forty years of Grimmelshausen research. In: Neophilologus, Vol. 36, 1952 (Jan.), pp. 247-249
  • To Walther 79, 33. In: Neophilologus, Vol. 34, 1950 (Jan.), pp. 15-20
  • Walther and Wolfram. In: Neophilologus, Vol. 27, 1942 (Jan.), pp. 186-205

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Otto Rompelman, director of the Dutch life insurance company in Leipzig. Compare: Königin-Carola-Gymnasium Leipzig: Teacher and Student Directory 1921/22 , Leipzig 1922
  2. ^ Johann Hauptmann: Alphabetical index of former Carolaner. In: Twenty-five anniversary of the Queen Carola High School in Leipzig 1927 , Leipzig 1927, p. 32

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