The Practice of Philology in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands

book: The Practice of Philology in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2015

The Practice of Philology in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands

Edited by: Ton Kalmthout and Huib Zuidervaart

Volume 14 in the series History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048522033

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About this book

This volume illuminates how philology and its focus on the critical examination of classical texts began an accelerated process of specialization in Dutch scholarship of the 1800s.

Author / Editor information

Zuidervaart Huib :

Huib J. Zuidervaart is a senior historian of science at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in The Hague. He is the editor-in-chief of Studium, the official journal for the History of Science and Universities in the Low Countries and member of the editorial board of the book series History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
1. Introduction Ton van Kalmthout and Huib Zuidervaart Open Access Download PDF	7
2. The Importance of the History of Philology , or the Unprecedented Impact of the Study of Texts Rens Bod Open Access Download PDF	17
3. ‘Dutch Language and Literature’ (and other ‘national philologies’) as an example of discipline formation in the humanities Gert-Jan Johannes Open Access Download PDF	37
4. Between academic discipline and societal relevance Professionalizing foreign language education in the Netherlands, 1881-1921 Marie-Christine Kok Escalle Open Access Download PDF	53
5. Fruin’s Aristocracy Historiographical Practices in the Late Nineteenth Century Jo Tollebeek Open Access Download PDF	79
6. Biblical Philology and Theology Johannes Magliano-Tromp Open Access Download PDF	103
7. Linguistics as a profession Diverging opinions in the nineteenth century Open Access Download PDF	115
8. ‘Remember Dousa!’ Literary historicism and scholarly traditions in Dutch philology before 1860 Jan Rock Open Access Download PDF	147
9. Beam of a many-coloured spectrum Comparative literature in the second half of the nineteenth century Ton van Kalmthout Open Access Download PDF	179
10. Trifles for ‘Unflemings’ Teaching Dutch literary history in nineteenth-century Wallonia Kris Steyaert Open Access Download PDF	209
11. The Relations of Jacob Grimm with the ‘Koninklijk-Nederlandsch Instituut van Wetenschappen, Letterkunde en Schoone Kunsten’ Old and new documents for the history of the humanities Rita M. Schlusemann Open Access Download PDF	231
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	253
Index Open Access Download PDF	255

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 258
Illustrations
- Other: 10 halftones
Keywords: Linguistics; History, Art History, and Archaeology

eBook

Published: February 11, 2015
ISBN: 9789048522033