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Ferdinand van Ingen

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Ferdinand Jacobus van Ingen (born 8 December 1933) is a Dutch scholar of Germanistics. He was a professor of German literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam between 1972 and 1998.

Life

Van Ingen was born on 8 December 1933 in Utrecht.[1] He studied German studies, literary science, art history and musicology at Utrecht University, the Free University of Berlin and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He obtained his PhD in 1962 from Utrecht University.[1]

From 1957 to 1962 he was a scientific assistant at the Institute for German Language and Literature in Utrecht. In 1964 van Ingen became a lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 1970 he became associate professor and in 1972 full professor for new German literature.[1] He retired in 1998.[2]

Van Ingen has published on German and Dutch literature of the 17th century.[1] He is known for his work on the Baroque time and has contributed to expanding the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.[3] Van Ingen was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Holländisch-deutsche Wechselbeziehungen in der Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts(1981)–Ferdinand van Ingen" (in Dutch). Digital Library for Dutch Literature. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Het begrip Oostenrijkse literatuurgeschiedenis, problemen en perspectieven" (in Dutch). Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 16 August 2020.
  3. ^ Martin Bircher and Guillaume van Gemert (1995). "Brückensläge Eine barocke Festgabe für Ferdinand van Ingen" (PDF) (in German). Radboud Repository of the Radboud University Nijmegen. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Ferdinand van Ingen". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017.