Mia Gerhardt

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Irene Mia Gerhardt
Born(1918-12-28)28 December 1918
Domburg
Died13 November 1988(1988-11-13) (aged 69)
NationalityDutch

Mia Irene Gerhardt (1918–1988) was a Dutch medievalist and professor of comparative literature at the University of Utrecht.

Education and career[edit]

Her parents were Ida Blankevoort and Dirk Reinier Gerhardt.[1] Gerhardt attended the Erasmus Gymnasium in Rotterdam. She went on to study French at the University of Groningen.

From 1946 to 1950 she was a scientific assistant at the University of Leiden. In 1950 she earned her Ph.D. Between 1950 and 1968 Gerhardt was a lecturer in French language studies. As such, she was connected to both the University of Groningen and the University of Utrecht. In 1968 she became a professor at Utrecht. In 1971 she became a member of the Royal Dutch Society of Science.[2]

Publications[edit]

  • 1953: "Iets over het gebruik van de eerste persoon in verhalend proza"[3]
  • 1955: "Don Quijote. La vie et les livres"
  • 1956: "Het droombeeld van de Gouden Eeuw"
  • 1957: "Les voyages de Sindbad le marin"'
  • 1963: "The art of story-telling. A literary study of the thousand and one nights"
  • 1964: "Two wayfarers. Some medieval stories on the theme of good and evil"'
  • 1967: "Old men of the sea. From Neptunus to Old French luiton: ancestry and character of a water-spirit"[4]
  • 1968: "Zevenslapers en andere tijd-verliezers"
  • 1977: "Bestiarium morale: Commilitonibus suis carmina selecta seruit"
  • 1988: "Het 'testament' van Adriaan Bommenee. Praktijkervaringen van een Veerse bouw- en waterbouwkundige uit de 18e Eeuw" (eindredactie)

Scientific articles (selection)[edit]

  • 1949: "Les premières traductions des Bucoliques". In: Neophilologus. Vol. 33, afl. 1.
  • 1949: "Maupertuis". In: Neophilologus. Vol. 33, afl. 3.
  • 1955: "L'Imagerie de Sylvie". In: Neophilologus. Vol. 39, afl. 1.
  • 1957: "Malherbe et les Muses". In: Neophilologus. Vol. 41, afl. 1.
  • 1958: "'L'Octavie' de Nerval". In: Neophilologus. Vol. 42, afl. 1.
  • 1959: "Metrische schema's van het lange vers". In: Neophilologus. Vol. 43, afl. 3.
  • 1962: "Medieval story-telling". In: Neophilologus. Vol. 46, afl. 3.
  • 1965: "The ant-lion. Nature Study and the Interpretation of a Biblical Text[5]". In: Vivarium. Vol. 3, afl. 1.
  • 1966: "Knowledge in Decline. Ancient and medieval information on "ink-fishes" and their habits". In: Vivarium. Vol. 4, afl. 1.

Personal life[edit]

Gerhardt was the sister of poets Ida Gerhardt and Truus Gerhardt. She married J. Engel, a professor of medieval Latin. After the death of her husband, Gerhardt moved to Domburg. Gerhardt was a member of the Netherlands Malacological Society. In 1977, Gerhardt took over the editorship of the yearbook of this society.[6] Her collection of fossilised shells was donated to the Naturalis Museum in Leiden after her death.[7][user-generated source]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Nieuwenhuis, J. G. J. (1 January 1989). "In memoriam Mevr. Dr. M.I. Gerhardt (1918 – 1988)". Correspondentieblad NMV. 246 (1): 479–481. ISSN 0923-5701.
  2. ^ Doornenbos, Greta (2001). Vrouwen in de Academies van Wetenschappen van uitsluiting tot uitzondering (in Dutch) (1st ed.). Zutphen: Walburg Pers. pp. 188–189. ISBN 9789057300899.
  3. ^ DBNL. "Mia I. Gerhardt - auteur". DBNL (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  4. ^ DBNL. "Mia I. Gerhardt - auteur". DBNL (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  5. ^ GERHARDT, MIA I. (1965). "The ant-lion: Nature study and the interpretation of a biblical text, from the Physiologus to Albert the Great". Vivarium. 3 (1): 1–23. ISSN 0042-7543.
  6. ^ "Old age comes with defects -". teravbj.nl. 15 January 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Gerhardt, Mia Irene (Prof. Dr.)". Choncology.


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