1st Edition
The Practice of Philology in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
The Netherlands have a long and important tradition in scholarly philology. For instance in the early days of Leiden University 'philology', or the critical examination of classical texts, was regarded as a 'cutting-edge science'. This field of scholarship had far reaching implications on disciplines such as theology, chronology, astronomy, history, law and other demarcated bodies of knowledge... Read more
Introduction, The Importance of the History of Philology, or the Unprecedented Impact of the Study of Texts, 'Dutch Language and Literature' (and other 'national philologies') as an example of discipline formation in the humanities, Between academic discipline and societal relevance: Professionalizing foreign language education in the Netherlands, 1881-1921, Escalle Fruin's Aristocracy: Historiographical Practices in the Late Nineteenth Century, Biblical Philology and Theology, Linguistics as a profession: Diverging opinions in the nineteenth century, 'Remember Dousa!' Literary historicism and scholarly traditions in Dutch philology before 1860, Beam of a many-coloured spectrum: Comparative literature in the second half of the nineteenth century, Trifles for 'Unflemings': Teaching Dutch literary history in nineteenth-century Wallonia, 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
Biography
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.
