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Includes bibliographical references and index
FOREWORD; CHAPTER I -- YOUTH AND STUDENT YEARS; CHAPTER II -- TEACHER; CHAPTER III -- DEPUTY LIBRARIAN; CHAPTER IV -- PROFESSOR: THE FIRST YEARS; CHAPTER V -- LINGUIST; ILLUSTRATION1; CHAPTER VI -- PUBLICIST; ILLUSTRATION2; CHAPTER VII -- STUDENTS; ILLUSTRATION3; CHAPTER VIII -- COLLEAGUES; CHAPTER IX -- FRIENDS; CHAPTER X -- THE LAST YEARS; EPILOGUE; Acknowledgements; Archives and correspondence consulted; Bibliography of Nicolaas van Wijk: corrections and additions; References; Index of personal names
Nicolaas van Wijk (1880-1941) was the founder of Slavic studies in the Netherlands and one of the greatest Slavists in general. This book describes for the first time how a scholar of the Dutch language, whose etymological dictionary of the Dutch language is still considered the best of its kind, was appointed in 1913 to the newly created Chair in Slavic languages at Leiden University and built up a tremendous reputation for himself in Eastern Europe. Van Wijk's relations with his famous teacher, the linguist C.C. Uhlenbeck, are followed attentively, as is his postgraduate apprenticeship in Le
