Willem den Boer

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Willem den Boer in Kiel (1965)

Willem den Boer also: Wim den Boer (born October 4, 1914 in Rotterdam , † February 16, 1993 in Leiden ) was a Dutch ancient historian .

Life

Willem den Boer, was the son of the engineer and shipbuilder of the same name Willem den Boer (born March 7, 1889 in Charlois; † March 8, 1969 in Dordrecht) and his wife Maaike Stijntje Vaandrager, who was married on October 30, 1913 (born June 20, 1886 in Charlois; † June 3, 1959 in Dordrecht). He attended high school in Dordrecht and from 1932 studied at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, first theology, and later classical philology . In 1938 he became a teacher of ancient languages ​​and ancient history at the Lyceum in Bussum , and in 1940 he received his doctorate in Leiden with a thesis De allegorese in het werk van Clemens von AlexandriaPhD in philosophy and then worked as a teacher, or since 1942 as vice-principal at the Christelijk Gymnasium Sorghvliet in The Hague .

On February 7, 1946, he received an appointment as an associate professor of philosophy and literature at the University of Leiden, which he took up on May 3, 1946 with the speech Nationalisme in Griekenland durende 5e eeuw voor Christus and initially held lectures on history. On December 20, 1950, he became a full professor of the chair. In the following years he was dean several times, in the 1963/64 academy year rector of the Alma Mater and supervised twenty doctorates . In 1969 he was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and became a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion .

Den Boer combined his theological and historical training in his research. He has published numerous monographs and essays in Dutch and English. His best known writings include Godsdienst der Grieken (1946), Laconian Studies (1954), Eros en Amor. Man en vrouw in Greece (1962) and the anthology Syggrammata. Studies in Graeco-Roman History (1979).

family

De Boer married on May 21, 1940 Bussum with Adolphine Jeanette Backer Dirks (* March 7, 1916 in Rotterdam; † August 26, 1997 in Heemstede), the daughter of Jacobus Johannes Backer Dirks (* February 19, 1886; † 18. July 1955) and his wife Adolphine Marie Amalie Mahn (born October 21, 1892 in Klingenberg / Colmnitz; † November 15, 1985 in Leiden). The marriage has two daughters and a son. we know from children:

  • Adolphine Marie Irene den Boer (born December 6, 1942 in The Hague) married. Francois Jan Dieleman (born September 10, 1939)
  • Marijke Adriane den Boer (born April 25, 1944 in The Hague) married. January 27, 1968 in Leiden with Jacobus Gerhardus Tielenius Kruythoff (born October 17, 1941 in Batavia),
  • Willem den Boer (born October 27, 1950 in Leiden) married. October 16, 1973 with Claire Constance Josee Snelder (born July 11, 1946)

Fonts (selection)

  • De allegorese in het werk van Clemens Alexandrinus (= Dissertationes inaugurales Batavae ad res antiquas pertinentes. Vol. 1, ZDB -ID 1094168-x ). Brill, Leiden 1940 (Leiden, University, dissertation, 1940).
  • Nationalism in Greece. Gedurende de 5de eeuw v. Chr. Batteljee & Terpstra, Leiden 1946.
  • De godsdienst van de Grieken (= Servire's Encyclopaedie. B, 4A, 4). Servire, Den Haag 1948, (2nd printed ibid. 1965).
  • as editor: Scriptorum paganorum I – IV saec. de Christianis testimonia (= Textus minores. Vol. 2, ZDB -ID 1162499-1 ). Brill, Leiden 1948, (Editio altera. Ibid 1965).
  • Celsus. De first bestrijder van het Christendom (= Rede uitgesproken bij de opening van het studiejaar van de School voor Taal- en Letterkunde. 36). Noordhoff, Groningen et al. 1950.
  • Editing Benaderbaar. Universitaire Pers Leiden, Leiden 1952.
  • Laconian studies. North-Holland Publishing, Amsterdam 1954.
  • Porphyrius as historicus in zijn strijd tegen het Christendom. In: Varia Historica. Aangeboden aan Professor Doctor AW Byvanck the occasion of the zijn zeventigste verjaardag. Gorcum, Assen 1954, pp. 83-96.
  • Tussen kade en schip. 12 studiën over geschiedenis en wereldbeschouwing. Bakker et al., The Hague 1957.
  • Grieken en de Grieken (= Leidse Voordrachten. 24, ZDB -ID 415123-9 ). Universitaire Pers Leiden, Leiden 1957
  • Caesar tweeduizend jaar na zijn dood. In: Museum. Tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis. 62, 1957, ZDB -ID 206571-x , pp. 1-16.
  • Tweeërlei maatstaf (= Leidse Voordrachten. 30). Universitaire Pers Leiden, Leiden 1959.
  • Eros en Amor. Man en vrouw in Greece en Rome. Bakker et al., The Hague 1962.
  • Scaliger en Perizonius, hun betekenis voor de wetenschap. Bakker et al., The Hague 1964.
  • Theseus. Noordhoff, Groningen 1966.
  • Heerscultus en ex-voto's in het Romeinse keizerrijk (= Mededelingen of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Affdeeling Letterkunde. NR 36, 4). Noord-Hollandsche uitgeversmij, Amsterdam et al. 1973, ISBN 0-7204-8259-3 .
  • Some minor Roman historians. Brill, Leiden 1972, ISBN 90-04-03545-1 .
  • Progress in the Greece of Thucydides (= Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeeling Letterkunde. Mededelingen. NR 40, 2). North-Holland Publishing, Amsterdam et al. 1977, ISBN 0-7204-8455-3 .
  • Private morality in Greece and Rome. Some historical aspects (= Mnemosyne. Supplementum. 57). Brill, Leiden 1979, ISBN 90-04-05976-8 .
  • The art of memory and its mnemotechnical traditions (= Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeeling Letterkunde. Mededelingen. NR 49, 3). North-Holland Publishing, Amsterdam et al. 1986, ISBN 0-444-85655-2 .

literature

Web links

  • Boer entry at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
  • Boer in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden
  • Boer at the Digital Library of Dutch Literature (DBNL)
personal data
SURNAME Boer, Willem den
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boer, Wim den
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1993
Place of death Suffer