![]() ![]() ![]() Rowen as America: A Dutch Historian's Vision, from Afar and Near (Part 2) (Harper & Row, 1972) Amerika Levend en Denkend (1926), translated by Herbert H.Erasmus of Rotterdam (1924), translated by Frederik Hopman as Erasmus and the Age of Reformation (1924).Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen (1919), translated as Herbst des Mittelalters by Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg (1924), The Waning of the Middle Ages (1924), as The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1996) and as Autumntide of the Middle Ages by Diane Webb (2020).Rowen as America A Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near (Part 1) (Harper & Row, 1972) Mensch en menigte in America (1918), translated by Herbert H. ![]() ![]() Huizinga's son Leonhard Huizinga became a well-known writer in the Netherlands, especially renowned for his series of tongue-in-cheek novels on the Dutch aristocratic twins Adrian and Oliver ("Adriaan en Olivier"). The Huizinga Lecture (Dutch: Huizingalezing) is a prestigious annual lecture in the Netherlands about a subject in the domains of cultural history or philosophy in honour of Johan Huizinga. Huizinga argued that the spirit of technical and mechanical organisation had replaced spontaneous and organic order in cultural as well as political life. Many similarities can be noted between his analysis and that of contemporary critics such as Ortega y Gasset and Oswald Spengler. Huizinga also published books on American history and Dutch history in the 17th century.Īlarmed by the rise of National Socialism in Germany, Huizinga wrote several works of cultural criticism. In the latter book he discussed the possibility that play is the primary formative element in human culture. Worthy of mentioning are also Erasmus (1924) and Homo Ludens (1938). The Waning of the Middle Ages or Autumntide of the Middle Ages) (1919). His most famous work is The Autumn of the Middle Ages (a.k.a. Huizinga had an aesthetic approach to history, where art and spectacle played an important part. He lies buried in the graveyard of the Reformed Church at 6 Haarlemmerstraatweg in Oegstgeest. He subsequently lived at the house of his colleague Rudolph Cleveringa in De Steeg in Gelderland, near Arnhem, where he died just a few weeks before Nazi rule ended. Upon his release, he was banned from returning to Leiden. He was held in detention by the Nazis between August and October 1942. In 1942, he spoke critically of his country's German occupiers, comments that were consistent with his writings about Fascism in the 1930s. In 1916 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1915, he was made Professor of General History at Leiden University, a post he held until 1942. He continued teaching as an Orientalist until he became a Professor of General and Dutch History at Groningen University in 1905. It was not until 1902 that his interest turned towards medieval and Renaissance history. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the role of the jester in Indian drama in 1897. He then studied comparative linguistics, gaining a good command of Sanskrit. Born in Groningen as the son of Dirk Huizinga, a professor of physiology, and Jacoba Tonkens, who died two years after his birth, he started out as a student of Indo-European languages, earning his degree in 1895. ![]()
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